‘I am proud of my work’: the women pushing boundaries in Gaza
by Bethan McKernan and Aseel Mousa in Gaza City from World news | The Guardian on (#6AE0B)
Palestinian women are fighting back, despite personal losses and scarcity of opportunities in the conservative territory
Rouzan al-Najjar, a paramedic from the Gaza Strip, knew that her work saving lives during the 2018 protests on the frontier with Israel challenged assumptions in the highly conservative Palestinian territory about the role of women.
Being a medic is not only a job for a man," the 21-year-old said in an interview shortly before she was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper.
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