RAMALLAH, West Bank — Sahar Tbaileh began her push to boycott Israeli goods with the help of three of her neighbors who live between the Ain Munjid and al-Masyoun neighborhoods in central Ramallah.

The women met at Tbaileh’s house and joined forces to form a women’s committee to spread the boycott and cleanse their neighborhood of Israeli goods by talking to women, merchants and store owners. The committee has also contacted neighborhood schools and discuss the importance of the boycott with students, in an unprecedented move that first took place Nov. 5.

Tbaileh told Al-Monitor, “This was a personal campaign initiated by us women, out of our patriotic sense of the need to conduct a boycott. [This step] came in light of Israeli aggression toward our youth and children, taking into account the fact that stores are full of Israeli goods for which there are local alternatives.”

Tbaileh and her neighbors’ initiative was not limited to their neighborhood. They also tried, through acquaintances, to spread the idea to other Ramallah neighborhoods. “We are trying to influence women by talking to them about what has been happening on the ground. It is inconceivable that we continue to support Israel’s economy and buy Israeli products while they murder our children,” she said.