Issam Abdulhadi (1928–16 August 2013) was an award-winning Palestinian women’s rights activist.
[2][3] Abdulhadi began her career in Palestinian women’s activities in the West Bank in 1949.
[1][2] In April 1969 Abdulhadi was imprisoned by Israeli forces and then deported with her daughter, Faiha Abdul Hadi, after arranging a sit-in and hunger strike at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, where she had been protesting the Israeli army’s killing of women in Gaza.
[2][3] Abdulhadi worked through the Save Jerusalem Committee in Amman, Jordan.
She then headed the Palestinian delegation to the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.