CTV News reports about a Gazan refugee in Canada, who stabbed herself over her plight so authorities will find her a safe place to live.
It is the reason she fled Gaza that I want to highlight:
A Palestinian refugee stabbed herself in the stomach, just below the ribcage, last week while in a meeting with a federal government official with Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Sitting on a park bench, a day after being released from hospital, Aziza Abusirdana tells CTV News, “I put a knife in my body because no one cares. Seriously no one cares.”
For seven months she’s been stuck, living in a refugee hotel west of Toronto. She says she never intended to kill herself, but decided to stab herself in the stomach to try and get the attention of the federal government and the settlement agency which, for more than half a year, hasn’t been able to assist her in finding what she believes would be a safe place to live.
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Raised in Gaza, Abusirdana’s young life has been filled with trauma. She claims her own father and grandfather back home have threatened to find her and kill her. The 22-year-old left home and was on a scholarship from an Algerian university, but says she had to drop out and flee to Canada amid fears that her own family was tracking her down with plans to murder her.
Publicly, she doesn’t share what led to her situation with her father and grandfather, but the incident has left her traumatized, alone and isolated in a new country, and unable to trust anyone. Her request for housing is straight forward: her own bedroom and bathroom with a lock on each door. And she can’t live in a shared space with men.
We already know many women in Gaza have it bad, subject to increasing domestic violence and honor killings. This is just another example of it.
And if you recall, this is the fourth Gazan woman refugee in Canada I have posted about. None of them fled because of Israel, with the previous three fleeing Hamas.
Which is the reason why you never heard about any of them from so-called human rights organizations and activists. If you cannot blame the Jews, what’s the point speaking about it?
Hat tip: Michal
