A Family

A German named Elias lived in Palestine with his Palestinian wife, Yousef, and two daughters, he wanted to move to America for a better life with his wife, Yousef, their 4-year-old daughter Ali & their 12-month-old baby girl named Lina.

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Elias was on his computer and looking up how to get a passport out of Palestine, Yousef came in the room and asks him in worry "You think Father will like us going to the U.S?"

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Elias asked "Why not?" Ali ran into the room and yelled at him to pick her up, she loved being picked up by any parent.

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Elias held her in his arms, then the baby crawled in and used his pants' leg to stand up.

Elias yells "Hey, babe, looks, she's standing up! First time!" Then picked up the baby and asked his wife "Can we throw a party?"

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Yousef was so worried because her father was a man of rage, anger, etc. Yousef was never loved by her father and was always abused by him, he has tried to kill her 50 times in her first 12 years of childhood and always blamed Yousef for those moments, even laughed about the look on her face when she was nearly killed, as a child she was forced not to eat or be pepper sprayed and beaten while stripped naked to fully have the blunts taken to her tiny, frail body.

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He raped her daily when she was a teen and this marriage made him jealous, her father wanted her to be his wife. Yousef's father's name was Hassan, Hassan killed his wife when Yousef was a baby and got away with it.

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Hassan married a 16-year-old girl named Iman in Pakistan.

Iman was born in Palestine, but she was taken to Pakistan for marriage to keep him from getting in trouble. They stayed there for 5 years and then he took her back to Palestine, her parents were confused as he had kidnapped her.

Don't get it twisted, not all Arabians marry off their kids all willy-nilly, her parents had no idea about Hassan. They had no idea he wanted to marry her.

Now, Iman was dating him in secret but they had no idea.

He was beating her, so she broke up with him and that was why he kidnapped her.

Don't get it more twisted & say they were in Love, Hassan was lusting after Iman, but he was not in love with Iman. He was a perverted man with a sick & twisted sense of romance.

Iman was rich, he wanted in on that and he was a pedophile.

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Palestine also experiences high rates of gender based violence (GBV), especially domestic violence which is "widespread, normalized, and made worse by the occupation" (United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA], 2017).

In Palestine, the most recent, statistically sound, and representative data on child marriage is from the 2014 Palestinian Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in partnership with the UNICEF and UNFPA, which found that 15% of girls between 20 and 24 are married before the age of 18 and 1% are married before the age of 15 (PCBS, 2015).

However this data can be misleading as some areas in Palestine have higher rates of child marriage such as Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Area C (UNFPA, 2016 & UNFPA, 2017).

The MICS survey also found that there are higher rates of early marriage in urban and camp areas rather than rural areas which in inconsistent with global child marriage trends (PCBS, 2015).

This could be due to the inability to account for unregistered and informal marriages.

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Hassan beat Iman as if she murdered his family -- So, he beat her A LOT.

Hassan raped her and got her pregnant when she was 21-years-old, when she gave birth, he would tell her about his awful ideas on what he wanted to do with his daughter, she left him for it and went back to her parents house.

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Hassan choked her when she was at the park with her daughter.

Her parents let her go alone, having no idea he was there.

Iman's parents and her family used to live in Area C.

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A 2019 Area C survey conducted by OXFAM and University of Birzeit found that 31% of surveyed women had been married before the age of 18, "with no notable decline in rates of early marriage among younger women" (OXFAM, 2019).

The survey also found the highest rates of child marriage in encampments (40%) and in the Jordan Valley (38%)—areas that also experience the most obstacles to education (OXFAM, 2019).

In addition to higher rates of early marriage, the Jordan Valley, south West Bank, and the encampments also have larger families and higher rates of polygamous marriage.

According to the report, these findings suggest that "households in Area C, especially the most deprived communities, have been locked out of many of the socio-economic and related demographic transitions that have taken place in the wider West Bank over the past two decades" (OXFAM, 2019).

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Hassan took the baby and ran off to Gaza.

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Present day, Yousef is terrified of her father.

He was a stalker who would follow her and the children, he once tried to light her on fire at her job, when her and her family went to East Jerusalem.

7 Jewish men had to save her from her dad who tried to kill her, with one of the Jewish men named Abiathar jumping in front of the bullet, that Jewish man is forever in her heart and still alive due to Yousef's Christian husband, Elias, praying for the man who saved his wife.

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Yousef left East Jerusalem early due to this.

Yousef was distraught.

Her father was still haunting her.

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Now, her husband is going to leave and she's going to be free of her father... Or will she?

Yousef left her husband with the two kids at 5:55 PM Monday, in Palestine.

It is 2018.

It should be June in America.

Yousef was walking alone with her baby and daughter, then 6 men in all black dressed like Ninjas attacked her and took her kids and her to a roof, then they pushed her off in front of the children as they cried, then the pushed the 4-year-old off of the roof, then they threw the baby off of the roof as the baby cried in fear.

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This happened a day before Elias was going to get the passports to move to America.

When Elias got the call from her father that "I had my nephews kill your wife and children, that's what she gets for marrying some white man who drives trucks for a living."

Elias was freaking out and called "970," Palestine's version of "911," and told them that "Send an ambulance and police, my wife's father told me he sent someone to kill her and my kids!" In The Palestinian Language so that they would understand.

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They moved quick and searched and found her in front of an office building that was about 3 floors high.

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Elias had a panic attack when the officer told him "They didn't make it." After the officer had them sent to the hospital, Elias yelled at him "No, you're lying!" And then the doctors told him that "The 4-year-old and baby are both dead, your wife was in a coma."

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Elias said "She's alive?!" In Fear and then doctor heard her flatline and ran to her.

Elias was shaking because his children were dead.

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His wife flatlined, they saw her pass away.

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She died that day.

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Elias tried to kill himself before the funeral 5 times, Yousef's grandmother from Iman's side of the family tried to save him 4 times and succeeded, Yousef's grandfather from Iman's side of the family saved him by cutting the rope down just before he hung himself.

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Elias told him "I lost my life, I lost my wife, my Ali, my baby, Lina."

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His wife's grandfather from Iman's side of the family sat on the floor with him and comforted him saying "You need to be here."

Elias lost his mind that day he lost his family, his memory faded, he looked so dazed all the time, no smile on his face, pure pain and crying.

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Elias went to bed but never slept, he always thought of his wife being pushed off the cliff, he tried to avoid thinking of his baby's reaction, he was horrified at the toddler's reaction to the death.

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When he got out of bed, he tried to call his in-laws, having no one else as his parents were back in Germany.

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Alas, his parents in Germany got the news from his in-laws who were friends with them because they'd come to visit, Elias' mother cried and his father then tried to shoot Yousef's father to death.

The police got his dad and let him go out of sympathy and arrested Yousef's father.

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Elias went to a mental institution in Palestine.

Elias was transferred to one in Germany due to his parents worries over Palestinian institutions.

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Elias went back to Germany and stayed in the Bethel Foundation psychiatric hospital in Bethel, formerly a town, today Bethel is a neighborhood of Bielefeld, Germany.

I Wonder how a Place went from "Town" to "Neighborhood."

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Elias got the best treatment they gave him, Elias was taking meds, getting better, less suicidal, etc.

However, Elias had hallucinations and saw his wife and kids.

He'd see things, the meds were supposed to help with that, but they didn't work so they gave him new meds.

His emotional problems were helped with the previous meds, so this new one helped out less.

His doctors were working to find him meds that handled the hallucinations and the emotional depression he had.

Elias was on anti-depressants and anti-psychotic meds.

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To be continued...