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 parents used to fight all the time. When I upset my mother he (my father) would beat me. I was afraid of him all the time. He would grab me by the hair and bang my head against the wall. If I remember him I canÕt sleep. I suffocated when he put my head in the toilet and flushed it.Ó - Nadine (She refuses to refer to her father as baba or 'dad


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 parents used to fight all the time. When I upset my mother he (my father) would beat me. I was afraid of him all the time. He would grab me by the hair and bang my head against the wall. If I remember him I canÕt sleep. I suffocated when he put my head in the toilet and flushed it.Ó - Nadine (She refuses to refer to her father as baba or 'daddy'.).


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