Women of Resistance

We aren't asking for entertainment or luxuries. We don't need restaurants and cafés. We are only asking for the basic human needs - light, water, electricity, cooking gas, alongside education and safety. Education and safety are very important for us. Says Ola Abd el-Aal, a Palestinian woman in Gaza who spends most of her days volunteering at the Palestinian Red Crescent. Sakina is joined by Parminder Chadha, a writer, musician, activist and healer.

This edition of the program is about Hiyam and the hardships she goes through as a result of Israel's wars on Gaza.

This edition of the program is about a widowed Palestinian mother who recounts her family’s hardships in the almost two-year-long Israeli genocide of Gaza.

In this week's episode of "Women of Resistance," we delve into the story of Fatima Sami Jaber al-Nouri, a woman who pays huge price during the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. She lost her parents, her husband and her son to the Israeli indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

This episode recounts the story of Warda, a young Palestinian woman who lost three of her brothers in Israeli atrocities. She has lost hope and faith in international bodies to intervene on behalf of Palestinians, and the only hope she still preserves is in the Lord.

In this week's episode of "Women of Resistance," we explore the story of Naheel Salama Saeed Khammash, a carer for her elderly and disabled parents and a mother of orphans in Gaza.

In this week's episode of the program, we explore the story of Bisan Shabet, who is only 15, but having lived her whole young life in the shadows of a war and, more recently, a genocide, the budding poet and aspiring journalist says she feels much older than her age.

In this week's episode of Women of Resistance, we explore the story of Maryam Abu Ghazaleh, born in Pakistan but beaconed back to her roots in Gaza, where her voluntary services in the much needed field of physiotherapy would prove crucial in the crumbling medical field. Sakina is joined by Dr. Imranali Panjwani, Founder and Head of Diverse Legal Consulting.

This episode of Women of Resistance reviews the life and hardships of another woman, Bara Wael Jaber from Gaza.

In this week's episode of "Women of Resistance," we explore the story of Feryal Ahmed Mohamed El-Shorbagy who lost both her mother and father along with her limbs in the Israeli genocide.