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The head of the Palestinian Women’s Studies Center for Economic and Social Development in Gaza, Sahar Yaghi, confirmed that despite the great role that women’s institutions in Gaza seek to play, under the siege and in harsh political and economic conditions, these institutions are exposed from time to time to campaigns of demonization. And unjustified attacks, by people and groups seeking to distort what you are doing.
In a discussion session hosted by the Institute of Politics and Society on Monday (9/11/2023) and attended by a group of interested Jordanians, entitled “Being a Gazan Woman,” Yaghi presented a general vision of the biggest challenges, issues and problems facing Gazan women, and the role that Gazan feminist institutions are trying to play. To alleviate this suffering and to support Gazan women in their political, social and economic capabilities alike.
Yaghi pointed out that the challenges do not stop at the borders of the siege facing the Gaza Strip, and the bad conditions and conditions that Gazans suffer from, especially in the deprivation of a large number of their natural rights, most notably their right to move outside the Gaza Strip and communicate with the outside world. Rather, the Gaza Strip faces harsh economic conditions. At the forefront of which is the large problem of unemployment, which reaches record rates for Gazan women, and the lack of economic opportunities in many cases.
Yaghi pointed out that women’s organizations in Gaza are not new in the Gaza Strip, and they have a presence that extends to decades of work and activities, and their work did not stop before the division between the West Bank and Gaza, and there are an estimated dozens of active women’s organizations, in multiple fields, and they play an important role in supporting and empowering women. Economically by supporting and developing their projects in Gaza, despite all the challenges, material and moral difficulties, and attacks facing these women’s institutions, and the failure of laws to protect them from these attacks.
Yaghi concluded her discussion with the audience by affirming that there are effective and strong women leaders in Gaza, who play major roles in struggle and society, but their representation in political circles and Palestinian forces at leadership levels is still limited, and despite the presence of Gazan women leaders in the recent dialogues between the Fatah and Hamas movements, However, women in general were absent and were not invited to the Cairo dialogues, and she pointed out that for the first time two women had reached the political office of the Hamas movement in Gaza. In the elections that took place in 2021, there are feminist leaders in the Palestinian political forces and in civil society.
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