Description : Part of the series Hush Ñ a project that maps the various stories of a group of Palestinian women. Each of whom for one reason or another became a victim of gender-based violence and was consequently placed in a shelter or a so-called safe house. Because I was divorced at the age of twenty-three, my only escape was another marriage, to a much older man. On the same day of our wedding he told me that I was like his daughter. He never touched me but gradually started beating me. He was very violent and felt no respect whatsoever towards me. I lost sight in one eye on the day he decided to get rid of me. Palestine.