Ramallah – Together – Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mona Al-Khalili, met with Palestinian feminist leaders, representatives from feminist institutions, and members of the regions, today at the Ministry’s headquarters, to diagnose the current stage and its repercussions on women, and to discuss the prospects for joint action to unify feminist efforts on the local Palestinian scene, based on unified action in international forums. Especially the submission of international reports on a Palestinian state and the progress achieved despite the previous occupation.
Al-Khalili met with the President of the General Union of Palestinian Women, Intisar Al-Wazir, and a delegation of members of the General Secretariat, and the two parties discussed a number of issues on the Palestinian scene that touch upon the needs of Palestinian women and the challenges facing them. The two parties also discussed expanding the framework of work with local, regional and international institutions, and Al-Khalili stressed the commitment
of the State of Palestine. By submitting international reports on the State of Palestine, monitoring the violations facing the Palestinian people and Palestinian women in particular in the West Bank and Gaza, and including reports on the impact of the occupation in demolishing the Palestinian effort made 75 years ago.
Al-Khalili also met with the head of the branch of the Union of Women’s Committees for Social Work/Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, Haifa Qudsiyeh, and the accompanying women’s delegation. For her part, Al-Khalili stressed the policy role of the Ministry and the goals that the Ministry seeks to work on, which are consistent with the official government vision, for the sake of national liberation, ending the occupation, and social liberation. And advancing the situation of Palestinian women politically, economically, socially, and at the level of education and health, stressing that the Palestinian government pays great attention to women’s issues at all levels.
Al-Khalili also discussed with
a delegation of female members of the Jerusalem region all the challenges facing Jerusalemite women and the restrictions imposed on the holy people, in addition to the inhumane measures and violations of the occupation, such as house demolitions, house confinement, arrests, restrictions on freedoms, and many other measures of repression, violence, and abuse against citizens. For her part, Al-Khalili stressed However, Jerusalem is the compass of work and the Ministry will continue its work by strengthening partnerships to enhance the steadfastness of Jerusalemite women and all institutions operating in the city of Jerusalem.
In the same context, Al-Khalili received Suhair Farraj, Director General of the Women’s Media and Development Foundation, TAM, and they discussed the prospects for joint work, while talking about the current efforts and the necessity of building on them in a cumulative manner to raise the voice of Palestinian women locally and internationally, and expose the crimes of the occupation again
st the Palestinian people. The two parties exchanged current joint efforts in the field of the national transfer system, and the integration of gender into the media context and various sectors.
Finally, during previous meetings, Al-Khalili stressed the importance of economic empowerment for women, the government’s work and vision to advance the situation of Palestinian women, and the partnerships being strengthened between ministries to ensure the preservation of women’s rights and efforts to make real achievements at the legal and legislative levels and at all levels. Emphasizing the struggle of the Palestinian people in all areas of their presence.
The meetings also produced several recommendations, most notably focusing on the suffering of women in Gaza, highlighting this war and its repercussions on women in international forums, talking about the suffering of Jerusalemite women and the need to strengthen their steadfastness, violations of women in the West Bank, the necessity of working to secure reli
ef and humanitarian aid, and strengthening partnerships at the union level. Popular committees, unions, national frameworks and committees, and providing a fund to grant zero loans to Jerusalemite women.
Source: Maan News Agency
