SF Chronicle · 23 August 1991
CP-1991-022
Veil Squads Enforce Islamic Law
Paint-gun war on ‘loose’ Gaza women reflects a nationalistic fervor
Sabra Chartrand
Transcribed from the clipping
“About 30 teenage boys were scattered… her father, husband and brothers must force her. If they fail to do so, others must intervene.”
Context added by this archive
Coercion of Palestinian women by Palestinian men, reported in the New York Times and reprinted in San Francisco. The archive keeps it for the same reason it keeps the 1993 dispatch about a clinic that will not dispense contraceptives without a husband’s consent: the pressure on these women did not come from one direction.
Cite this item
"Veil Squads Enforce Islamic Law," SF Chronicle, 23 August 1991. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1991-022. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1991-022
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