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 Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

 When Nawal’s husband had to stop working two years ago due to severe stomach pains, she became the family’s primary provider. Nawal, who asked to use only her first name, lives with her seven children in Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem. Nawal used to be eligible for stipends from UNRWA that would help her cover the family’s medical costs, but she was recently told this assistance is no longer available.

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 Nawal and Zahya are only two of thousands of Palestinian women who are directly affected by the Trump administration’s decision to dry up aid funding to Palestinians. The administration most recently shut down USAID’s mission in the West Bank and Gaza, while cutting more than half a billion dollars in funding to Palestinian projects in 2018. Critics say it is just the latest attempt to blackmail the Palestinian Authority into a peace agreement with Israel.

 When society or institutions start to break down because of lack of investment, women are even further burdened by the domestic responsibilities they are traditionally associated with, says Susan Markham, USAID’s former senior coordinator for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Managing time between professional responsibilities and “housework,” she adds, becomes an even greater challenge. “It’s something that is not measured oftentimes, but has a real impact on everyday women’s lives,” she says.

 The effects of such a break down on women are twofold: gender-focused programs funded by the U.S. have now been scrapped, reducing the number of initiatives that focus exclusively on promoting women’s rights and opportunities, while larger infrastructure-related projects — such as in health and sanitation — remain unfinished. This can have a detrimental impact on the roles of women and girls in society.

 Palestinian school girls stand in front of a mural painted on their school wall in Gaza City on March 13, 2013. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

 Hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. aid went toward Palestinian women’s rights advocacy programs over the past several years. Among the aid recipients is Kayan, a feminist organization protecting the rights and advancing the status of Palestinian women in Israel, which was awarded a grant by the U.S. government for a project that strives to end sexual harassment in the workplace. In the West Bank and Gaza, the American-funded “Women’s Courts” project aimed to reduce gender-based violence in Palestinian communities through legislative reforms and policy changes.

 Palestine is the only country in the Middle East and North Africa that has acceded to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) without reservations or declarations. Palestinian women are among the most educated in the region, and while more women are entering the workforce today than 10 years ago, the rates are still lower compared to regional averages, according to a 2017 World Bank report.

 “USAID really focused on helping [Palestinian] women gain economic empowerment,” says Markham. It involved programs that put girls through high school, funded internships and mentorships, and helped women start their own companies, creating a positive cycle where women “were being valued by the community as a business owner or a worker able to bring money home to the family.” These changes, she says, helped shift gender attitudes in Palestinian society.

 Over the past two decades, U.S. funds have helped more than 200,000 female students in the West Bank and Gaza gain access to a better education through investments in school renovations and training. These initiatives have now come to a sudden halt.

 One of the most severe cases is a school in the Bethlehem area that only goes up to 10th grade, says Sean Carroll, the head of Anera, one of the largest non-governmental organizations providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians. Anera had been working on rehabilitating and expanding the school to offer students a secondary education. “If you wanted to continue your studies, you had to go 30 miles away. A lot of the kids didn’t, particularly the girls, so effectively girls’ education in that town was stopping at 10th grade,” he explains.

 Keeping girls in school is also one of the most effective ways to avoid child marriage, still a significant problem in Palestine, according to a joint statement by the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) and Human Rights Watch from last July. Based on data released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, child marriage reached 20.5 percent among women and one percent among men of the total married population in Palestine.

 Palestinian women hold their babies, who had been born in shelters during the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza, during a ceremony to honor the mothers in an UNRWA center in Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip on August 13, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

 A significant factor discouraging girls from attending school is lack of access to appropriate sanitation facilities during menstruation, due to lack of access to water and adequate hygiene. Abandoning investments in water infrastructures, which connect homes to clean water and sewage networks, is therefore likely to affect women and girls unfavorably.

 Furthermore, water shortages add pressure on women, who are often tasked with household chores, including cooking and cleaning, as well as caring for children who contract waterborne diseases. In areas that aren’t connected to water networks, women and girls are usually responsible for finding and collecting water for their families, which can prevent them from attending school or engaging in paid work, according to EWASH, a group of over 30 organizations working on water, sanitation, and hygiene issues in the occupied territories.

 “The biggest amount of our USAID project funding over the past 10 years has been in water and wash,” says Carroll, “and with the cuts right now, we know 57,000 Palestinians will not get access to safe water [through a project] that was planned and would have been implemented by the end of the year.”

 Israel’s rule over Palestinians restricts the entry of goods to the occupied territories, including medicine and medical equipment. As a result, life-saving health services, such as cancer treatment and neonatal intensive care, are not available in the West Bank and Gaza. Many Palestinian patients travel to East Jerusalem to receive care at one of six hospitals that comprise the East Jerusalem Hospital Network. Last September, the Trump administration pulled $25 million it had planned to give the Network.

 According to Bassem Abu Libdeh, the director of Al Makassed Hospital, U.S. funding used to cover 40 percent of costs for the six hospitals. Coupled with last September’s slash in aid to UNRWA, which amounted to a 30-percent budget cut to the United Nations agency tasked with providing services to millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, many Palestinians can no longer afford the care they need. For women, this means limited access to breast cancer treatment or care for high-risk pregnancies available predominantly at these East Jerusalem hospitals.

 These funding shortages have further undermined the operation of mobile clinics, operated by a group of Palestinian and international NGOs called the Health Cluster, which provide health services to more than 220,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied territories, “the most vulnerable in these communities include women during pregnancy and childbirth; sick children and infants; the elderly; and the chronically ill or disabled.” This not only has a direct effect on women’s health programs, but also adds pressure on women who usually act as caretakers in the family, such as Nawal.

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 “The Palestinian national economy cannot sustain itself as a result of the occupation and its policies,” says Dr. Sahar Qawasmi, who was elected as a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006 and serves on the board of WCLAC. “When a woman is subjected to violence, is denied economic opportunities and political agency, it significantly affects future generations.”

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   Please enter a valid e-mail Please enter a name     COMMENTS     itshak Gordine SundayFebruary 10, 2019     The real problem is not Arab women, but Arab men who rape and abuse Jewish women. Uri Ansbacher, a 19-year-old girl from Tekoa City, was raped and murdered last Thursday by a Ramallah Arab working in Israel. The Israeli government should stop issuing work permits to Arabs from Judea and Samaria. The sole purpose of these work permits is to support the artificial entity of Ramallah.

    Reply to Comment         UnimpressedRealist SundayFebruary 10, 2019     The real problem is not Negro women, but Negro men who rape and abuse White women. *issues one case to validate a racist trope* working in White State. The Confederate government should stop issuing work permits to Negros from A and B. The sole purpose of these work permits is to support the artificial entities of black neighborhoods. 

 See how easy it is to expose what you really are?

    Reply to Comment         itshak Gordine SundayFebruary 10, 2019     Unfortunately, you are making humor as I expose a human drama that has just happened in Israel. You probably live in the USA and do not understand anything about the Israeli situation. I can only recommend you to think instead of writing nonsense

    Reply to Comment           Ben SundayFebruary 10, 2019     Itshak Gordine Ha-Levy, you’re making a career change? From world class Missing The Point Man to garden-variety right wing internet troll? We’re supposed to be outraged? 

 A dullard is a dullard.

 Why don’t you and that other demagogic moron Trump get together and form the American-Israel Anti-Mexican-Arab-Rapist Society? Because that’s “The Real Problem.” Sure. And then you two can blame everything on the rape of “our women” and “protecting our borders”? That’ll show ‘em. You could get together and tell heartwarming lynch mob stories. About “very fine people on both sides.” Then you could team up with the moron here recently who tried to claim that resisting the Israeli occupation was the equivalent of Mexicans invading Loma Linda, California. I kid you not. You three would made a great team.

 How else to employ a benighted spouter of stupid slogans, entrapped in layers of venomous, racist, Lahava-ist nonsense and visions of hereditary ethnoreligious Land Lordship? Exploiting a murder with relish. At one and the same time dismissing the real problems of Palestinian woman–and by extension the occupation as well–as trivial, while pretending to be the protector of the safety and honor of Jewish women (“the real problem”!), but in both cases actually an assiduous perpetuator of a system that oppresses women, Arab and Jewish, and a member of an easily-manipulated, mindless, excited Jewish male mob out to lynch Arab men either figuratively or literally. 

 But run along, dear, you might miss the next Beitar Jerusalem football game and a chance to shout Death to Arabs!

    Reply to Comment         Ben SundayFebruary 10, 2019     What Do ‘Jewish Arabs’ Mean When They Shout ‘Death to Arabs’? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-when-arab-jews-shout-death-to-arabs-what-do-they-mean-1.5429107

 “…Dudai is actually explaining something deeper about the ethnic divide that is searing the skin of the State of Israel: The great hatred held by the “La Famillia Kingdom” and its derivatives towards the non-Jewish-Arabs is related to the Ashkenazi elite’s alienating treatment of Jewish-Arabs; to the belittling way those “Ashkenazi,” that newspaper Haaretz, looked at them. The product of that belittling gaze was this: We must make it clear to those elites that we are not like the “Arabs.” We are not Arab-Jews, but “Mizrahi” or better yet “Israelis.” In this sense, we can understand the calls for “Death to Arabs” as not being a hope for the physical demise of Arabs, but rather for a longing to kill the “Arab” in the “Jewish-Arab” in every passing moment; a longing to cut off a deep part of one’s identity in order to be admitted to the club. This is also the reason why the hardcore Beitar fans prefer to bring to the fore their Jewish part: The use of the Star of David, massive signs that broadcast that “Beitar will remain pure forever”, etc. The way to the front of the line for Israeli privilege is linked to stressing Jewishness while obscuring Arabness, bringing the religious to the fore while hiding the national – and later in the merging of the religious and the national to create the nationalist…..”

    Reply to Comment         itshak Gordine TuesdayFebruary 12, 2019     Imagine the intricately racist and stupid nature of the enemies of the State of Israel and of the Jewish people. Arafat Irfaiya raped and killed the young Ori Ansbasher, 19, for nationalistic reasons … Arab society in general has a foul behavior with women. Its traditions prevent it from adapting to the modern world. You will always find leftists (in the USA) to find extenuating circumstances for this kind of people.

    Reply to Comment         Ben TuesdayFebruary 12, 2019     Halevy, your racist attempt to conflate a crime of rape and murder with Palestinian nationalism and all Palestinians is brazen and shameless. 

 In addition, last time I checked Orthodox Jewish society too had many problems adapting to the modern world. Last time I checked there were Jewish men in prison in Israel for crimes of rape and murder. Or are Jews, alone among men, peculiarly immune from such kinds of crimes except for the convicted ex-president of Israel and some IDF generals? 

 Educate yourself out of your benighted, pre-Enlightenment, Lahava-ist worldview and own up to talking deceptive nonsense: 

 ‘Militant Palestinian factions, among them Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have refrained from taking credit for the murder of Ori Ansbacher. The Palestinian Prisoners Club and other groups supporting jailed Palestinians have yet to send a lawyer to represent the suspect, 29-year-old Hebron resident Arafat Irfaiya. Imprisoned Fatah members have also distanced themselves from the incident and have opposed his being jailed in the wing identified with their faction. The Palestinian factions’ silence is unusual, and contradicts the pattern of responses that usually follow terror attacks. The director of the prisoners club, Qadura Fares, told Haaretz that Irfaiya’s family has not asked his group for any legal aid. “If there will be such a request, we will consider it and send a defense lawyer to review his claims,” Fares, said. “If it turns out there really was a sexual assault, we will pass on representation. That would make the case a criminal one, as far as we’re concerned, and we object to anyone committing a criminal offense trying to pass it off as a nationalist act.” Irfaiya is currently represented by the public defense. A senior Fatah official imprisoned in Israel told Haaretz that he condemned Irfaiya’s actions. He said that he and his colleagues have asked the Palestinian Authority not to pay Irfaiya a salary or to fund his defense. “Such behavior is totally unacceptable to us. Anyone who commits such acts is not a human being,” the senior official said. “If an Arab girl had been there, he would have done the same thing. There is nothing nationalist in his acts.” He said the incident was an embarrassment to the Palestinian people and sent condolences to the family. “Even if it weren’t a rape, such a murder is unacceptable,” he stressed. “The murder victim was no soldier, and it didn’t happen during wartime. If you want to be a hero, you don’t go and kill an innocent woman who went to read a book in the forest.” The senior official said that Irfaiya will probably be jailed in the wing for Hamas prisoners, considering his family’s ties to the faction. He reiterated that Fatah prisoners would not quietly accept any attempt to place him in their wing. “We will never accept such a man,” he said. “This man should be in a criminal wing and be punished for what he did to the woman. If we catch him, no one will be able to protect him from harm.”’ https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-palestinian-factions-reject-israeli-teen-s-murderer-because-he-raped-her-1.6932248

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