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Forty-seven Palestinian
women were killed during the period (1967 - 1983). They were
victims of war. This
number indicates that 44.6 per cent of the martyrs where killed
while
defending their lives.The causes of this killing are:
The state of defense is
defined here in the following condition (A) while being terrorized
out
of one's place, (B)
while attempting to cross the bridge, (C) while a neighborhood has
been
demolished, and (D)
while the Israeli force is breaking in ones territories.
The per cent of women
who were martyred in a fida'I operation is 4.3% and this indicates
that women participation
in armed struggle is extremely limited. Yet this fact means that
women are moved to take
part in liberating their own country showing that oppression had
reached a high level of
intensity.
A fact is that
Palestinian women security status is under attack, the 25 per cent
of martyrs
were killed in
demonstrations. They were deprived from the right to even voice
their opinion.
Freedom is a rare
condition under occupation. Palestinian women like other
women of the
Third World countries
living under emergency conditions are forced to be part in the
struggle
to survive. They are
much than just observers, because they are hit directly by adverse
conditions to their
basic needs. Their supporters, fathers, brothers, sons, husbands are
facing constant threat
of being jailed or killed.
There are cases where
you find a Palestinian under town-arrest and his brother/ sister or
husband/ wife is
deported. It is a common scene to see families dispersed and stories
on
human suffering in
relation to "significant events" in a family life are insufferable.
Significant
events are either death
of a father where the sons cannot cross the bridge to attend the
funeral.
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