Palestinian engineer, Zeina Abu Salama,24, checks the cactus seedlings and prepares some for gifts at her cactus nursery, on the International Women's Day, in Jenin in the West Bank. on March 8, 2021. In light of difficult economic and living conditions for experienced by Palestinians. Throughout the decades that Palestinians have fought for independence, women have been taking on more than their traditional share of responsibility for the provision of the family because men have been injured, imprisoned, in hiding, in exile or dead. Photo by Oday Daibes