The second of two articles in the lives of Palestinians on the West Bank looks at projects that are helping women break out of their traditional domestic roles and become breadwinners and decision-makers
In a bare room, a Palestinian woman is sharing a joke with an Israeli doctor and an Eritrean nurse. Downstairs, a 90-year-old Israeli nurse, a Communist veteran of the kibbutz movement, is taking a Palestinian woman’s blood pressure. Outside in the winter sunshine, many more Palestinian women, clad in colourful hijabs and floor-sweeping abayas, are impatiently waiting their turn.Welcome to women’s day at the West Bank village of Khirbet Abu Falah near Nablus. The team of volunteer doctors and nurses are from Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-Israel), and this is
19 December 2013, The Tablet
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