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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Ruwaida Amer

‘Broken’: Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza

Palestinian women comfort each other at a funeral for adults and children killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Deir el-Balah, May 31, 2024 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

Khan Younis, Gaza – The face of Samar Ahmed, 37, shows clear signs of exhaustion.

It is not just because she has five children, nor that they have been displaced several times since the start of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza 14 months ago and are now living in cramped, cold conditions in a makeshift tent in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Samar is also a victim of domestic violence and has no way to escape her abuser in the cramped conditions of this camp.

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