Womens Day
On March 8, 2008 WATC celebrated International Women‘s Day. At a rally in Ramallah which was organized by WATC and other women‘s organizations, about 2 000 women gathered at Al Manara circle carrying Palestinian flags and banners with slogans supporting women‘s rights. The focus this year was a call for the end of Israel‘s occupation. Participants circled Al Manara and then walked to the presidential headquarters. They placed flowers on the grave of the late President Yaser Arafat. They then met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Salwa Abu Khadra, Secretary-General of the General Union of the Palestinian Woman, spoke on behalf of those participating in the rally...
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2/27/2008 Israel grants family reunification to 7000 Palestinians
Thousands of Palestinians are living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank but are denied a Palestinian identity document or passport by Israel. They live as foreigners although they have returned from exile to their own homeland. Each of these people has a story of the troubles they face living "illegally" in their own country: some have children who cannot be registered in official records...
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Letter to the UN regarding the attack on Gaza 

March 5, 2008
Your Excellency Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,
We, a coalition of women‘s organizations in the occupied Palestinian territory, demand the United Nations to take strong and immediate action in protecting the people of Gaza from Israeli military attacks. The people of Gaza witnessed a massacre over the past 5 days, where more than 120 Palestinians were killed in air strikes by Israeli F16 fighter planes; 25 of them were children below the age of 18 years. Despite Israel’s pull out of Gaza today, it declared that it will continue its bloody campaign in the coming days. This has been no ordinary invasion: Israeli Deputy Defense Ministry Mitan Vilnai has threatened the Gazans with a holocaust and Cabinet Member Meir Sheetrit has incited genocide….
 
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Voice of Women 289

Young inheritors of the refugees‘ land ownership documents and keys
 
By Fayez Abu Awn
 
…"Even though I‘ve never seen my town," she tells us, "I see my land, its sky and its trees in my heart. I see my grandfather under the trees and my grandmother cooking in her oven in my mind, because these memories live inside of me and grow with me."…

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