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Israel: Thousands of Women Protest State Inaction over Femicide

Israel: Thousands of Women Protest State Inaction over Femicide

TeleSur 12/05/2018

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Concerts and performance art filled the region as women protested the state’s inaction in the face of injustice.

Some 20,000 women are banding together to denounce the state’s deadly negligence which is victimizing women across Israel in a nationwide march Tuesday.

Black coffins, puddles of red paint, roadblocks, and “die-ins” were erected throughout the Tel Aviv protest which was triggered by last week’s double homicide of two girls. Twenty-four women were killed in impunity in 2018, the region’s highest statistic since 2011, the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) said.

“This is a historic turning point. Tens of thousands of women from all parts of Israeli society are planning to strike on Tuesday to prove once and for all that 51 percent of the population is not a minority,” protest organizers said in a statement.

Despite assurances from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “convene” over the issue, little progress has been made for women’s rights.

Organizer Einat Nir, said, “This struggle is beyond sectors – it crosses classes, ethnicities, and nationalities. We come from all ends of the land. All the edges of the political map. From all parts of our society. In this struggle, we stand together.”

In an online statement, protesters said, “Fifty-one percent of the population do not count, nor receive resources, and their basic needs are not met. This is an outrage and we are stopping it.”

In a show of solidarity, hundreds of health, state, educational institutions allowed their employees time off to participate in the nationwide strike. Concerts and performance art filled the region as women protested the state’s inaction in the face of injustice.

“The government cannot continue to hesitate while women are being murdered,” said protest organizers, accusing the state of failing to fund necessary programs to combat gender violence.

“We demand the transfer of the NIS 250 million budget promised a year and a half ago for the emergency plan to prevent violence against women,” organizers said.

Zionist Union representative, Ksenia Svetlova, said, “It’s all a matter of priorities.”

TeleSur

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Bonus video:

The Haaretz staff goes out to the street in honor of the 24 women murdered in Israel this year

Filed Under: Israel, women

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TeleSur is a Latin American multimedia platform oriented to lead and promote the unification of the peoples of the SOUTH. It is a multi-state funded, Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela. It is sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela, but also by Uruguay, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba.

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