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Is a new female Palestinian role model emerging?

Equal rights for women in the PA! Women are just as qualified as men to kill Israelis

PA Minister of Women’s Affairs cites female mass murderer and “female Martyrs” as proof of gender equality in Palestinian society

Are positive role models for Palestinian women emerging? Possibly — but this does not replace their fundamental role, which is supporting terrorists

“In the absence of the law to defend the family against violence, the men of the family will continue to do as they please with the women” – Palestinian NGO

An interview on Labor Day with the Secretary-General of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, shed more light on the conditions in the PA labour market.

Top PA official Rajoub defends glorification of mass murderers as “stars”

Same PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge has explained that in certain situations it is OK for husbands, sons, and brothers to beat women

Abbas’ advisor about the international Convention on the ‎Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: “The PA is only ‎committed to that which is “consistent with Islamic law”‎

Although the PA likes to present itself as a secular authority, its own religious leaders continue to present strict - and at times even dangerous - radical interpretations of Islam.

Fatah praised Palestinian women as the makers of “heroes” and “Martyrs” who “scented the pure land of Palestine with their pure blood"

PMW has exposed numerous statements by Palestinian clerics and lecturers endorsing domestic violence

Palestinian TV interviewed experts on domestic violence in honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Terror mom thanks Abbas for rebuilding her home

Violence against women in Palestinian society is a serious problem

Suspected Palestinian honor killing in the shadow of PA leaders' continued justification of domestic violence

Palestinian women have no right to refuse sex to husbands, Mufti says

Sex on demand "at any time" is a husband's right - this is what Palestinians were taught in the official PA daily's religious ruling section yesterday. Moreover, a husband's "right" to "enjoy his wife" sexually "at all times" supersedes the woman's right to accept upon herself a religious fast: "A..."

PA TV uses International Women's Day to glorify female terrorists By Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch To mark International Women's Day, PA TV broadcast an interview with the Director of the Palestinian Women's Union in Gaza, Amal Hamad. Instead of discussing the achievements of Palestinian women...

At very same time that the PA ran a campaign to stop violence against women, Abbas' Advisor on Islam justified violence against women. (Dec. 30, 2018)

An interview with a Palestinian couple, Abu Wajdi and Sara Al-Qassem, who have been married for 75 years, provided a glimpse of Islamic marriage traditions in British Palestine in the 1940s before the establishment of the State of Israel. (March 19, 2018)

On International Women's Day, call by Women MPs from Arab Countries to Mahmoud Abbas to repeal law which enables rapists to avoid punishment by agreeing to marry the rape victim. (March 8, 2018)

Palestinian "honor killing" of women condemned by Fatah leader "If we wish to liberate our [Palestinian] society from the octopus grip of this crime (i.e., honor killings), we must purify our outlook, our books, and our heritage from the sanctification of killing for God and honor" "Our [Arab and..."

When a Palestinian man hits his wife, is Israel responsible? PMW's response to "Report on Violence Against Women" U.N. Human Rights Council, June 12, 2017 Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik During a recent UN Human Rights Council meeting, Israel was blamed for causing Palestinian men's...

A female PA TV reporter implicitly endorsed violence against women (April 6, 2017)