Phone app 許すs Gaza women to 報告（する）／憶測 国内の 乱用 不明な
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA, June 2 (Reuters) - A phone app that 許すs women in the Palestinian Gaza （土地などの）細長い一片 to 報告（する）／憶測 国内の 乱用 不明な is 許すing growing numbers of 犠牲者s to 捜し出す help while 避けるing the shame and 報復s that put many off going to the 当局 直接／まっすぐに.
The "Masahatuna" or "Our Spaces" app was developed by 地元の computer engineer Alaa Huthut, who saw the need for a way to 捜し出す advice 安全に in a society where family 圧力s keep much 国内の 暴力／激しさ hidden out of sight.
"Privacy was very important as 恐れる is usually the main 原因（となる） women don't 接触する or visit centres," she told Reuters.
The app 許すs women to 登録（する） with the service without giving their 指名するs or leaving a trace of their 接触するs with care centres on their own phones.
"If anyone looks at the phone they wouldn't know she made 接触する," Huthut said.
Gaza, run by the Islamist Hamas group, is home to some 2.3 million people, nearly half of them women, によれば Palestinian 記録，記録的な／記録するs.
In 2019, the Palestinian Bureau of 統計（学） said 41% of women in Gaza had 直面するd 国内の 暴力／激しさ and women's groups say that, as in many other countries, the problem より悪くするd during coronavirus lockdowns.
"I 直面するd 言葉の and physical 暴力／激しさ for many years," said a Gaza woman, 28, who asked not to be 指名するd. に引き続いて her 離婚 two years ago, the woman said she 直面するd 脅しs from her former husband and his family who 脅すd to take her 7-year old son away.
Kholoud Al-Sawalma of the Gaza Community マスコミ Centre said 355 women had downloaded the app and 160 had 接触するd help centres that 供給する psychological and 合法的な support.
Last month, a Gaza 法廷，裁判所 手渡すd 負かす／撃墜する the 死刑 to a man who （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 his wife to death. But women's groups say more needs to be done to stop 国内の 暴力／激しさ in Gaza, where they say some women who 報告（する）／憶測 乱用 at times get directed to 一族／派閥 leaders to 解決する it.
In s ome 事例／患者s where women have died 予定 to 乱用, some men may try to escape 厳しい 罰 by 告発する／非難するing their partners of 姦通 or 偽の mental health problems, 法律 支持するs said.
(令状ing by Nidal Almughrabi; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
