{"id":24361,"date":"2018-12-05T04:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24361"},"modified":"2018-12-05T04:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:22:46","slug":"israeli-women-hold-nationwide-protest-over-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24361","title":{"rendered":"Israeli women hold nationwide protest over domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1415691\/middle-east\" readability=\"80\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Thousands of Israeli women protested against domestic violence in a nationwide strike on Tuesday, calling for more action and state funding to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe strike came after two girls were killed last week, bringing the number of women and girls murdered in Israel this year to 24, according to Israeli media reports.<\/p>\n<p>\nWomen were staying home from work and holding demonstrations in cities throughout Israel, some blocking roads.<\/p>\n<p>\nProtesters observed a moment of silence to mark the 24 deaths this year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBibi, wake up, our blood is not cheap,\u201d protesters chanted near the entrance to Jerusalem, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his nickname. The road had been smeared with red paint, symbolising the blood of victims.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on Sunday, Netanyahu mentioned a recent visit to a women\u2019s shelter, following which he decided to head the governmental committee to combat domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe will convene the committee time after time,\u201d he pledged, \u201cto bring a better future and hope for these women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMembers of the opposition, however, accused the government of failing to fund the existing program to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of priorities,\u201d Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union said during a parliamentary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said 250 million shekels ($67 million) for the program had not been transferred.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe welfare offices are on the brink of collapse,\u201d said Svetlova.<\/p>\n<p>\nA central rally was planned for Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Thousands of Israeli women protested against domestic violence in a nationwide strike on Tuesday, calling for more action and state funding to deal with the problem. The strike came after two girls were killed last week, bringing the number of women and girls murdered in Israel this year to 24, according to Israeli media&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}