As unrest expands, Gaza's women rise up

Women are joining the protests against Israeli soldiers on the eastern border of Gaza City.
A Palestinian girl uses a slingshot to throw stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem October 14, 2015. Seven Israelis and 30 Palestinians, including children and assailants, have been killed in two weeks of bloodshed in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. The violence has been partly triggered by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed Jewish
A Palestinian girl uses a slingshot to throw stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Oct. 14, 2015. - REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Inam Abu Qenas, 30, and Mervat Abdul Qadir, 26, headed to the front lines on the eastern border of Gaza City and approached the Israeli Nahal Oz military site to throw stones. Their Oct. 9 step pushed other young protesters to follow suit.

Abu Qenas and Abdul Qadir were not thinking of the criticism that their action may stir in society, as two women among an otherwise all-male protest. They do not think of the act of throwing stones as restricted to men.

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