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Facebook is stopping all posts that are promoted as adverts on the official Fatah Facebook page – Fatah claims this is "part of an ongoing campaign against Palestinian content"

“Since I was little I noticed that the family prefers male over female”

“Since I was little I noticed that the family prefers ‎male over female… [My parents] provided us with all our needs in life equally, but there ‎were things”‎

PA Minister of Women's Affairs states that "within our society there are a number of negative phenomena" and encourages the passing of a law to protect women from domestic violence

"Freedom of expression guaranteed" says PA, arresting activist. PA Attorney General Office cracks down on civilians protesting on social media

Fatah posts cartoon depicting a man wearing a “Free Palestine” headband, while Israeli and American hands cover his mouth with tape which has “Anti-semitism” written on it

Attacking Palestinian journalists who stand up for "women's rights" are just "attempts to intimidate which rest on narrow-mindedness that strives to incite and threaten with the sword of our religion and the traditions and customs of our noble and tolerant society" says Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate

"The Law to Protect the Family From Violence is a tool to protect society in general and women in particular" says Official PA Daily, bashing attempts to "distort" the law and "harm women and their dignity"

PLO Communist party "condemned" Palestinians who are "threatening" the women fighting for laws to protect themselves from domestic violence, saying that these threats to female activists "constitute ideological and social terror”

In PA TV interview, Hussein expresses hate towards the LGBT community, saying Palestinians “must educate” their children against being homosexual

"The State of Palestine is making efforts to improve the state of the Palestinian women’s rights"

"Praise for the female and male Martyrs, freedom to the female and male prisoners"

"The Hebron district is the West Bank district where violence by husbands against their wives or ex-wives aged 18 to 64 is the most prevalent"

"In the great majority of the cases... the murderer was from the murdered woman’s close surroundings, from her family"

Official PA TV, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech on Jan. 28, 2020

Text on cartoon: “Child marriage”

"Israel will be pleased as it sees the Palestinian people busy with causes other than resistance"

"Even if we signed the CEDAW convention we are not committed to it at all"

“Erekat: Joining the CEDAW agreement is a national achievement”

"The number of Christians in Nablus and all of Palestine is on the decline"

"A vigil against domestic violence"

“Tayseer Khaled called to build a civilian and secular political system in which the rule of law alone will rule”

"There are a number of reasons for the issue of violence against women"

"29% of the women who are currently married or were married in the past have been exposed to one of the types of violence"

"The president also issued a decision... that the [minimum] age of marriage for both genders is 18"