Israeli Occupation Undermines Structure Of Arab Family: Envoy

Cairo: Ambassador of Qatar to Egypt and Permanent Representative of the State to the Arab League H E Tariq Ali Faraj Al Ansari affirmed that the Israeli occupation undermines the structure of the Arab family, and that Arab families living under occupation represent a stark example of the disintegration of social structures due to systematic oppression.

He said that it is impossible to talk about the challenges facing the Arab family without considering the devastating impact of the Israeli occupation on the family structure and stability, as families under occupation, especially Palestinian families and those in the occupied Syrian Golan and Lebanon, represent a stark example of the disintegration of social structures due to systematic oppression. He said the occupation not only stripped the land of its people, but also directly targeted families through policies of arrest, home demolitions, forced separation of family members, and the imposition of a siege, which has led to the disintegration of family ties and the distortion of roles within the family.

This came in a speech delivered by the Ambassador during the launch of the First Arab Regional Policy Forum on the Doha Declaration: Family and Major Contemporary Transformations, organized by the Doha International Family Institute, which kicked off in Cairo over the span of two days. The forum is held in cooperation with Qatar's delegation to the Arab League and in partnership with the League's Secretary General.

He siad the structural targeting of the family, as the nucleus of Arab society, goes beyond human dimensions to touch upon the essence of identity and belonging, threatening to inherit suffering and instability across generations. Therefore, any strategic vision for empowering the Arab family is incomplete without including the occupation as a structural factor undermining the family, he underlined.

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