Those gay people in Gaza are safer in Gaza with Palestinians than in Israel where they are considered sub-human Rich. Do you know how many Palestinians are held without due process and tortured in Israeli prisons? Yeah, safe to say you have no clue about what is going on in the ME.
gay people in gaza are safer in Gaza?
... that post is so far from reality...
2. Treatment of Sexual Minorities by Society and Authorities
2.1 Societal Attitudes
According to sources, homosexuality is condemned in Palestinian society (
Haaretz 21 Feb. 2018; Toameh 12 June 2018). Sources state that homosexuality is a taboo in the Palestinian Territories (Vice 19 Feb. 2013;
Haaretz 21 Feb. 2018). According to sources, sexual minorities face stigma in Palestinian society (Toameh 12 June 2018; PhD Candidate 13 Nov. 2018;
Haaretz 21 Feb. 2018). Toameh indicates that Palestinian society does not recognize and respect the rights of sexual minorities (Toameh 12 June 2018).
The PhD candidate highlighted that "[t]here are few systematic polls evaluating society's attitudes toward sexual minorities in Palestine in particular" (PhD Candidate 13 Nov. 2018). The Online Content Editor further noted that
[w]hile in recent years a number of organizations, reports, and research publications have engaged with issues surrounding LGBTQ communities in the Palestinian Territories to advocate for their protection and civil rights, comprehensive and accurate assessments remain absent. (Online Content Editor 12 Nov. 2018)
According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, 93 percent of those surveyed in the Palestinian Territories indicated that homosexuality should be rejected (Pew Research Center 4 June 2013).
According to Haaretz, homosexuals cannot live openly in Gaza or the West Bank (Haaretz 21 Feb. 2018). The PhD candidate stated that interviews he conducted with LGBT Palestinians, primarily in the West Bank,
2.2 Incidents
Toameh indicates that over the past decades, several gay Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and Gaza (Toameh 12 June 2018).
According to sources, the following incidents involving sexual minorities in the Palestinian Territories have occurred:
- In 2016, Hamas killed a top Hamas commander for being homosexual (Toameh 12 June 2018) or being accused (among others) of being homosexual (Haaretz 21 Feb. 2018; The New York Times 1 Mar. 2016);
- In 2017, "
ome Palestinians claimed PA security officers and neighbors harassed, abused, and sometimes arrested LGBTI individuals because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. NGOs reported Hamas also harassed and detained persons due to their sexual orientation or gender identity" (US 20 Apr. 2018, 109).
[*]In 2018, the Hamas Interior Ministry interrogated and later released a producer of a television comedy about gay people in Gaza after it drew "strong condemnations" from Palestinians (Toameh 12 June 2018).
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