Part of the series Hush Ñ a project that maps the various stories of a group of Palestinian women, each of whom Ñ for one reason or another Ñ became a victim of gender-based violence and was consequently placed in a shelter or a so-called safe ÒMy mother died when I was very young. I could not find any evidence of her existence. I later found out that my father had killed her because she betrayed him. 'The daughter of a slut', thatÕs how he used to refer to me. He used to beat me and spray my face with pepper spray. I decided to commit suicide and jumped out of the window.Ó - Raghad.

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Photo credit: © Samar Hazboun / Alamy / Afripics
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