73 major focus in the plan, and the Women’s National Committee is required to form a committee in partnership with women's organizations, academics and the Independent Commission for Human Rights to monitor the strategic plan against violence, to follow up its implementation, and measure its success in reducing violence against women. At the level of practical measures taken by the Executive Authority in the West Bank, the Police apparatus continued this year to establish departments for family protection in police branches in different governorates, and disseminate the experiment initiated by the apparatus in the city of Bethlehem on seven governates until the end of 2010. The governates include: Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah, Tubas, and Tulkarem. The statistics of the Police in the West Bank for the year 2010 indicate that (785) cases of battered women were received, ranging from physical abuse, attempted murder, threats, rape, attempted rape, and attempted suicide. In the Family Protection Unit in Bethlehem Police Department, (126) cases from girls running away as a result of being exposed to domestic violence were received.83 In the Gaza Strip, there were no clear statistics available by the Police during 2010 on the number of battered women who were received in police stations, or on the forms of violence against them. The police do not provide information on the mechanisms being adopted to deal with women victims of violence. Safe houses (2) were sponsored and supervised by the Ministry of Social Affairs in the West Bank, in addition to (1) home supervised by the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC), which continued its work during 2010 within limited abilities. One house which belongs to the Ministry of Social Affairs was closed in 2007 but was re‐opened in November 2010. The Emergency Centers affiliated with the Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling received in 2010 (49) battered women, accompanied by (7) children. These cases were from women who experienced all forms of violence, and their lives threatened with danger or killing, or who ran away from home for reasons related to violence practiced against them as direct or indirect threats. According to the statistics available at Mihwar Center in Bethlehem, the Center received (12) children with their mothers in 2010. 83 See Strategic Plan to Combat Violence Against Women for Years (2011 – 2019), the Palestinian Ministry of Women's Affairs, the National Committee for Combating Violence against Women.