Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip protested a French proposal to ban headscarves in state schools. Monday’s protest by an estimated 300 women, many of them supporters of Islamic Jihad, came after French President Jacques Chirac said last month that he backed proposals to ban visible religious signs in state schools and public institutions.
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