Within the framework of unifying Palestinian feminist work efforts:

The Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mona Al-Khalili, met with feminist leaders, representatives of feminist institutions and members of political movements. To diagnose the current phase and its repercussions on women, and discuss prospects for joint action to unify women’s efforts in the local Palestinian arena in the light of unified action in international forums, in particular the submission of international reports on a Palestinian State and the progress made despite the occupation.

Al-Khalili met with the head of women’s committees’ union of social work department in Ramallah, Ms. Haifa Qudsiyeh and the accompanying women’s delegation. Al-Khalili stressed the ministry’s policy role and goals, in the light of the official government vision. Towards national liberation, ending occupation, social liberation and advancing the reality of Palestinian women at all levels, politically, economically, socially, in addition to, education and health.

Al-Khalili also discussed with a delegation of female members of the Jerusalem region all the challenges facing Jerusalemite women and the restrictions imposed upon them, 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 crimes of the Israeli occupation against 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 resilience, and the violations to which women are exposed in the West Bank. The need to work to secure relief and humanitarian aid, strengthen partnerships at the level of well-known federations, unions, national frameworks and committees, and provide a fund to grant zero-paying loans to Jerusalemite women.