Alex Delmar-Morgan. All rights reserved.After Heba Hmaid’s husband, Raed, was injured in the civil war in the Gaza Strip ten years ago, their marriage nearly broke down. Scarred by a serious injury to his right leg in the civil war between Hamas and Fatah in 2007, at first he grew nervous and irritable at home. Then he became violent.
“My husband began hitting me daily after he was wounded. And he was hitting my son sometimes,” Heba, 34, said through a translator. “ I knew that [the injury] had affected his behaviour. I tried cope with him, to deal with him in a different manner, but I couldn’t manage the situation.”
Before she married, Heba did a brief training stint at a place called the Palestine Trauma Centre (PTC) in Gaza after her university degree in media. Once married, her husband told her she must drop her studies, give up work and live at home. It was then that her problems started.
