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Entsar Abu Jahal

Entsar Abu Jahal

May 11, 2021

Palestinian women wait to leave the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 17, 2021. — Palestinian women wait to leave the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities, in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 17, 2021. — Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images

Palestinians women participate in a demonstration against the growing chaos in the Palestinian territories outside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters in Gaza City December 20, 2005. Abbas has vowed to end armed chaos in Gaza and the West Bank. A Palestinian human rights group said that over 200 Palestinians have been killed in feuds and internal violence in 2005 in growing lawlessness. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem - RTR1BCF3

Domestic Violence Against Palestinian Women on Rise in Gaza

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Are men getting away with murder in Gaza?

Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Women prisoners look out a barred window of Al-Qanater prison in Cairo October 6, 2007. Egypt's Interior Ministry invited representatives from the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights to visit the prison, after complaints of human rights violation were made by inmates in the prison. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) - RTR1UNPQ

Female prisoners in Egypt suffer rampant abuse

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Tunisian LGBT activist imprisoned after reporting police harassment

Mohamed Ali Ltifi

Mohamed Ali Ltifi