scholarly journals Foundling and Abandoned Children in Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Bassam Yousef Ibrahim Banat ◽  
Sameer Shqair ◽  
Iskandar Andon
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Child Abandonment ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Palestinian Society

The study addressed foundling and abandoned children in the Palestinian society as a multi-dimensional phenomenon. The study consisted of a retrospective transversal survey of one hundred and fifteen abandoned children, and ninety-two abandoning mothers purposefully selected from the records of Crèche Institution in Bethlehem, West Bank. The findings indicated that the ratio of foundling and abandoned children in the Palestinian society is very low comparison with international figures. The study concludes that child abandonment in the Palestinian society is a risk factor, and that under-reporting of offences, especially incest is widespread in the Palestinian patriarchal society.

scholarly journals After ‘Security First’: An Analysis of Security Transition and ‘Statebuilding’ in the West Bank 2007-11

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Leech
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Popular Consent

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) imposition of order after the end of the al-Aqsa Intifada has been generally interpreted as a success. Not only did the PA consolidate its power in the West Bank and restore good relations with Israel and the West, it also appeared to obtain popular legitimacy by cracking down on its political opponents. This paper discusses the impact of the PA’s imposition of order in Nablus, a town which had endured lawlessness and disorder under an Israeli siege (2001-7) and had been the focus of the PA’s security agenda. It argues that, though the PA’s security agenda initially enjoyed popular consent, this does not demonstrate public endorsement of the PA’s legitimacy. Rather the consent that such measures produced was superficial and, in the long term, the acceleration of the PA’s shift towards authoritarianism is likely to be profoundly debilitating for Palestinian society in general. 

FENCING THE LAST SKY: EXCAVATING PALESTINE AFTER ISRAEL'S ““SEPARATION WALL””

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER LAGERQUIST
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
State Solution ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Society

Since 2002, the ““Separation Fence”” has emerged as Israel's most defini-tive effort at reshaping the West Bank to date. Surveying the project's genealogy, ideological underpinnings, and diplomatic context, the article maps its concomitant implications: the bantustanization of the West Bank and any Palestinian state on some 50 percent of the territory; the fragmentation of Palestinian society and economy; the expansion and consolidation of Israeli settlement; and the physical and ““virtual”” transfer that looms as its conclusion. The author argues inter alia that the project has thus rendered irrelevant the current international ““me-diations”” in the conflict and terminally threatens also the idea of a two-state solution to the conflict.

Political Division and Social Destruction

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Abdalhadi Alijla
Keyword(s):  
Social Trust ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The Political ◽  
Test Results ◽  
The West ◽  
Generalized Trust ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
High Level

This article discusses the effect of the political division between Fatah and Hamas on the level of generalized trust in Palestine. It argues that the level of trust in Palestinian society has been shaped and influenced by the ongoing political division since 2007. As the level of trust has been declining since 2007, this research suggests that distrust in the political system, the deteriorated healthcare and education services, the high level of unemployment, corruption, and the violation of human rights in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have led to the decline of the level of generalized trust in society at large. This study uses statistical test results to support the main argument. Data available from 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2017 from the Arab Barometer are used to examine how institutional and contextual factors affect the level of generalized trust in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The article discusses the results and how creating a hybrid society has contributed to lowering the level of trust generally. It seeks to understand the change in social trust among Palestinians over the years of the ongoing division, and examines how the political division, directly or indirectly, has led to the current low level of trust that has left remarkable changes and deep polarization in Palestinian society.

scholarly journals Knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors among Palestinian women: a national cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamedraed Elshami ◽  
Mariam Thalji ◽  
Hanan Abukmail ◽  
Ibrahim Al-Slaibi ◽  
Mohammed Alser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
The West ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
The Gaza Strip

Abstract Background High awareness of cervical cancer (CC) risk factors is important to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with CC. This study aimed to assess the knowledge level of Palestinian women about CC risk factors and to determine the factors associated with good knowledge. Methods This was a national cross-sectional study. Adult women from hospitals, primary healthcare centers, and public spaces of 11 governorates in Palestine were recruited using a stratified convenience sampling. A translated-into-Arabic version of the validated CC awareness measure (CeCAM) was used to assess the knowledge about the 11 CC risk factors. For each correctly identified risk factor, the participant was given one point. The total score was calculated and was categorized into three categories: poor knowledge (0–3), fair knowledge (4–7), and good knowledge (8–11). Results A total of 7223 participants completed the Arabic CeCAM (response rate = 89.3%) and 7058 questionnaires were included in the final analysis: 2655 from the Gaza Strip and 4403 from the West Bank and Jerusalem. Participants recruited from the Gaza Strip were younger, getting lower monthly incomes, and with less chronic diseases than participants recruited from the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most frequently identified risk factor was ‘having a weakened immune system’ (n = 5458, 77.3%) followed by ‘infection with a sexually transmitted infection’ (n = 5388, 76.3%). The least identified risk factor was ‘having many children’ (n = 1597, 22.6%). Only 1670 women (23.7%) had good knowledge of CC risk factors. Women living in the Gaza Strip were more likely than women living in the West Bank and Jerusalem to have good knowledge (25.2% vs 22.7%). Completing a secondary or diploma degree, being employed, and having a monthly income of ≥ 1450 NIS (around $450) were all associated with lower likelihood of having good knowledge of CC risk factors. Conversely, knowing someone with cancer was associated with higher likelihood of having good knowledge. Conclusion The overall awareness of CC risk factors was low. There is a substantial need to establish educational programs to promote Palestinian women’s awareness of CC.

“EVERY SPERM IS SACRED”: PALESTINIAN PRISONERS, SMUGGLED SEMEN, AND DERRIDA'S PROPHECY

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-545
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hamdan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Life Imprisonment ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Post Card ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
West Bank And Gaza

AbstractThis paper investigates the contemporary phenomenon of smuggling sperm from within Israeli jails, which I treat as a biopolitical act of resistance. Palestinian prisoners who have been sentenced to life-imprisonment have recently resorted to delivering their sperm to their distant wives in the West Bank and Gaza where it is then used for artificial insemination. On the level of theory, my analysis of this practice benefits from Jacques Derrida's commentary inThe Post Cardon imaginative postal delivery of sperm to distant lovers. I use Derrida's heteronormative implication to examine how Palestinian prisoners defy the Israeli carceral system via the revolutionary act of sperm smuggling. The article then argues that smuggling sperm challenges the conventional gender codes in Palestinian society that see women in passive roles. Drawing on Derrida's metaphorical connection between masturbation and writing, I problematize the perception of speech/orality as primary in traditional Palestinian culture. Women, who mostly act as smugglers, become social agents whose written stories of bionational resistance emerge as a dominant mode of representation.

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