Domestic violence in the Arab world is an unspoken pandemic that shakes about a quarter of families, and women and children bear the greatest share of suffering as a result of this phenomenon.

Episode (1/2/2023) of the program “The Story Remains” presented 3 live stories of domestic violence.

The first relates to the exposure of children to waterboarding and electric shocks at the hands of their father, the second to a woman whose husband gouged out her eyes due to a dispute at home, and the third to a wife whose husband’s violence against her worsened until he burned her alive, but she miraculously survived.

Nael narrates what he and his brothers were subjected to by their father 20 years ago, when they were being beaten for no reason.

Only because their father returned from the fighting fronts in 1992, and he confirms that their father used to take them out during the cold weather in order to lower their temperature without going to the doctor or buying them any medicine to treat their illness.

He added that once he returned home, and after entering, his father tied his hands, and took him to the kitchen, where he lowered his head into a pot full of water;

In what is known as cases of waterboarding, and then he tied him to a chair and electrocuted him, and he said that he was subjected to this several times.

He popped her eyes

As for Fatima Abu Aklik, she lost her sight forever after she was subjected to systematic domestic violence by her husband, and she tells the “The Story of the Rest” program how her husband gouged out her eyes, after she was in his family’s house due to a dispute between them, and after he brought her home, he closed the doors and took a knife in an attempt to kill her. But she was resisting.

And after she tried to defend herself by pushing him away from her - as Fatima adds - he grabbed her from behind and pulled her hair, and took out her right eye with coal tweezers, and after she begged him to keep her other eye in order to see their child, he tried to take out the left eye with his finger, and he did not succeed in that.

She was burned alive

Nahila Al-Buraimi recounts her husband's violence, which worsened during the quarantine period during the Corona pandemic, and confirms that he used to treat her with kindness in front of her family, but upon returning home, he treated her with extreme violence, and the situation worsened during the quarantine period, as she was exposed to violence on a daily basis and on the simplest things, as she says. .

She adds that his violence increased when she asked for milk for their child.

After she decided to separate from him because of the violence, he tricked her into going to court to finalize the divorce papers, so he took her to the village and imprisoned her in the house for 3 days, and on the third day he took her out of the room to see her son from afar, and said to her: Today you will bid farewell to the world, pour fuel on her and light a fire. in her body, and after he burned her, he took her to the doctor and fled.

Lawyer and political activist Wasef al-Harak attributes domestic violence in the Arab region to the economic situation, social situation, and political circumstances.