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Scourge of domestic violence costs lives and continues unchecked

Sabah Salama, coordinator of the Forum for Combating Violence Against Women: "The Penal Code of 1960 in the West Bank does not provide protection for the Palestinian woman. The Family Protection from Violence Law has been on the [PA] government's table for over 16 years, and its inaction [on the..."

Interview with Amin Abed, political activist from Gaza Amin Abed, political activist from Gaza: "Hamas tried to kill me because I said that October 7 (i.e., Hamas' massacre and war against Israel) does not represent the struggle of the Palestinian people and does not represent us... Hamas has..."

Official PA radio Voice of Palestine host: "How does Shari'ah law address the issue of femicide?" Saadi Dweikat, Shari'ah lawyer: "When we investigate the issue of the murder of women, children, and others, we need to reach the reason behind them. For example, we investigate what reasons led to the..."

PA Ministry of Women's Affairs Director of Planning, Research, and Gender Studies Shadi Barghouti: "At the [PA] Ministry of Women's Affairs, we emphasize and act on the need to develop the legal framework to ensure effective protection for women, including expediting the legislation and updating of..."

Headline: "[The PA minister] of women's affairs condemns the crime of a woman being murdered by her husband in Bethlehem" "[PA] Minister of Women's Affairs Muna Al-Khalili condemned the crime of Jusian Ijha being murdered by her husband in Bethlehem. She emphasized that this crime constitutes a..."

Official PA TV host: "This year there has been an increase in murders and violence offenses against women in the Arab community [in Israel], bringing the total number of victims since the beginning of the year to 20 women." … Director of Arab popular committees in the southern Triangle region of...

Former Lebanese Minister of Education and Head of the Arab Culture Association Hassan Mneimneh: "You hear about Israel's treatment of the Palestinian prisoners (i.e., terrorists) in the prisons compared to the Palestinians' treatment of the Israeli captives (i.e., Israeli hostages held during..."

Official PA daily confirms what PMW has been reporting throughout the war

Title on screen: "The Saftawi family holds Hamas fully responsible for the murder of one of its members and the attack on their homes" Muhammad Saftawi: "I'm the brother of Hisham. We live in the central Gaza Strip.. Yesterday, Oct. 17, [2025], we were surprised to find that [Hamas] gunmen..."

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "Hamas, with these rebellious and ISIS-like ideas and these illegal acts, is providing the occupation (i.e., Israel) with what it wanted to achieve. The occupation wants the Palestinian people divided,..."

High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel Secretary Mansour Dahamsheh: "All the committees elected by the Arab public demand to address the issue of crime and violence in [Israeli] Arab society, but unfortunately there is no response. We firmly believe that this is part of the [Israeli]..."

Khaled Al-Azi, PhD in International Relations: "Hamas has destroyed Gaza. It has destroyed the stones and annihilated the people, and therefore it doesn't care about anything that is happening in Gaza... The aid is not a self-evident matter. We saw how people threw [the aid] from the sea and how..."

Forced child marriages of girls as young as 14 plague Palestinian society

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash: "[Hamas] have exploited themselves and the resources of their people, and they have hijacked the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years… They don't attach importance to the suffering of the Palestinian..."

Lebanese political science researcher Muhammad Ali Muqalled: "Israel operates militarily assuming that Hamas is hiding in tunnels underground. Not only the tunnel protects them, what protects them is the presence of [Gazan] people above the tunnel. Therefore, [Israel] is attempting to move the..."

Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate Chairman Nasser Abu Bakr: "In this entire war there are indeed attacks against journalists. We are monitoring and recording daily attacks by the Hamas Movement, and the 'Arrow Battalion' or something. It is a known group that belongs to Hamas that attacks..."

Hamas is systematically murdering Gazan residents attempting to access food ‎supplies ‎

Official PA TV News Official PA TV newsreader: "[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas received the annual report for 2024 from the Independent Commission for Human Rights (i.e., ICHR, under the PA; see note below), while meeting with a delegation led by ICHR General-Commissioner Issam Al-Arouri. The..."

Israel is libeled for starving Gaza while Hamas steals aid and makes people pay for their own deaths

Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: There are organized and armed gangs whose members are masked. They roam the streets and places where there are many sales stalls, stores, and warehouses, regardless of who owns these warehouses. Whether they belong to merchants or international...

Hamas brutally kills a Gazan who dared to speak out

Uday in hiding: Farewell video shortly before his murder Uday Al-Raba'i: "I of course am done with this war, and now Hamas is attacking us. They want me, they want to shoot me. Before they wanted me and wanted to shoot me, they came to me recently also by surprise. A short while ago, they also shot..."

Official PA TV program War Documents interviews released terrorist prisoner Shadi Barghouti who attempted to kidnap Israeli soldiers Released terrorist prisoner Shadi Barghouti: "Our condition [in Israeli prison] before Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas' terror war on Israel) was a normal, regular life..."

Citizens in Gaza can’t afford the humanitarian that was intended for them