Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s rights. Statistics are touted, initiatives are celebrated and hashtags are boosted.

Meanwhile, the true oppressors of women are whitewashed, their crimes are covered up and those who resist them are smeared.

But here in Gaza, we know who our oppres...