This study aims to identify the Palestinian women involvementin the politics during the Israeli siege on Gaza between 2006 and 2014. Inregard to achieve the objective of the study, the researcher designed aquestionnaire with a purpose of collecting the required data. Theframework of the study has used quantitative methodology, usingquestionnaire tool for data collection. The study population consists of1,500 Palestinian students studying at 13 universities in Malaysiaaccording to the list of Malaysian universities recognised by PalestinianMinistry of Higher Education. The questionnaire was filled out by astratified random sample of 352 students. The study demonstrates thatthere is a positive significant relationship between political involvementof Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip and the independent variablesconsist of women involvement in the political parties, womeninvolvement in the parliament and ministries, women involvement inNGOs, qualifications, women rights, and difficulties facing the women.The study concludes that Palestinian women were involved in the politics;it argues that, there is an obvious impact of the Palestinian women through the adoption of theresistance to the Israeli occupation. The study shows many difficulties facing the Palestinian women'sinvolvement. This study however concludes several recommendations, most notably is the need tocompel the Palestinian political parties to execute the principle of political pluralism, giving Palestinianwomen's the rights according to the Palestinian constitutions, and exceed social and cultural difficultiesthat prevent political involvement of Palestinian women.
The importance of this study lies in illustrating the role of Palestinian women in the development of Palestinian society as a result of their political participation and aims to examine the position of the Hamas movement on the political participation of Palestinian women during its various stages since with the movement's founding, leading to its assumption of power after winning the legislative elections. A qualitative research methodology used to address the study objectives by conducting 4 personal interviews. The researcher interviews Palestinian women leaders of the Islamic women's movement affiliated with Hamas, who participated in the political and social work fields, in addition to their participation in the management of ministries after Hamas's assumption of power. The interview includes 6 semi-structured questions. Personal interviews have been conducted in Gaza. Later, comparisons with previous studies have been made, analyzed, and reviewed. The study has several results, the most important of which are that the Palestinian woman in Hamas enjoys a large area of participation in political work of all kinds as Hamas' interest in women's affairs has been proven since the early stages of the movement's founding. This is evident as Hamas has allowed women to work in advocacy and to assume leadership positions within the social and educational institutions, leading to assuming power, after being elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council and obtaining their membership in the Palestinian Ministry. Nevertheless, women's political participation is still weak and limited in formal and informal institutions and decision-making places. Finally, the researchers recommend that future research deal with the political participation of Palestinian women on other dimensions, including social, cultural, educational, economic, and political factors.
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