I do not know Palestinian men keeping women under Sharia law

I take grave objection to the description of the Palestinian people put forward by Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, October 2).

Yes, there are women living under a variant of Sharia law in polarised and besieged Gaza. Otherwise, I do not know what Palestinian men are keeping women under Sharia law. I have not met any of them in over 30 years of living among Palestinians, so perhaps Mr Fitzgerald is not speaking about Haifa, Nazareth, Wadi Ara, Saknin, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Beit Jala, Jericho, Bethlehem, Akko, etc?

Interestingly, he made no reference to the Jewish women living under Jewish law in parts of Israel which is a really serious issue.