Palestinian women protest to end political Hamas-Fatah split
A group of women conduct sit-ins each week in Gaza's Park of the Unknown Soldier, calling for an end to the Palestinian division between Fatah and Hamas.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — No one expected the four Israeli mothers to be successful in their series of sit-ins in front of the homes and offices of Israeli authorities in demanding their sons, soldiers serving in South Lebanon, be saved. However, they got what they wanted, Israel retreated and the movement of the four mothers came to mark a turning point in history.
After failed political meetings to end the division between Fatah and Hamas, all that is left is the weekly sit-in organized by a group of women in the Park of the Unknown Soldier each Tuesday. It brings together different parties, except for Islamist ones, to demand the end of the Palestinian political division.
