WOMEN IN PALESTINE AND THE INTERNET SHUTDOWN IN GAZA:

A HUMAN RIGHT USED AS A WEAPON

Abstract

The scope of this work is based on the recent conflict situation between Israel and Palestine, from the experience of October 7, 2023, to the present. The main objective is to point out how the internet shutdown in Gaza worsens the situation of Palestinian women in the face of the war scenario, and to demonstrate how the human right to access the internet is fundamental for the protection and maintenance of already consolidated human and fundamental rights. This situation is evidenced by the gender inequality that is observed in each new report issued by the United Nations based, in part, on data presented by the Gaza Ministry of Health. In this sense, a hermeneutic bias to be covered, through a perspective that represents intersectionality is detailed at the end of the article, understanding the place of speech of Palestinian women in the world and how much the internet represents a hermeneutically representative space in a region where physical blocks for more than 15 years have isolated and erased their pain. In this step, the phenomenological-hermeneutic method is used, but here, not as a method, but rather as a way of being-in-the-world. From the phenomenological-hermeneutic “method” – as a way of being-in-the-world – it is seen to unravel the question of “how” the human right to access the internet can protect the voice and rights of Palestinian women in the midst of the condition of the world that surrounds them.