30 Female Palestine Prisoners In Israeli Occupation Prisons Suffer From Difficult Conditions

The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission published a fact sheet and data, which sheds light on the suffering of Palestinian female prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons.

This comes with the approach of the National Day of Palestinian Women, which falls on October 26 of each year.

This day was adopted after a decision was issued by the Palestinian Council of Ministers during 2019 to allocate a day for Palestinian women to celebrate them and work to empower and enhance their role at the national level.

The Commission explained that during the current year, Palestinian institutions of all spectrums decided to organize the activities of this National Day, starting from today, Monday, October 24, where popular and supportive vigils for the role of women will be organized in city centers and the governorates of the homeland.

The Prisoners Commission stated that the total number of prisoners in the occupation prisons is 4700, including 30 female prisoners. Two female prisoners are under administrative detention, Shurooq Al-Badan from Bethlehem governorate and Bushra Al-Taweel from Ramallah governorate.

The first female captive in the Palestinian revolution was Fatima Barnawi from Al-Quds, who was arrested in 1967, sentenced to life imprisonment, and released in 1977.

The number of women and girls who have been arrested since the signing of the Oslo Accords is approximately 2,550.

The number of Palestinian women who have been arrested since 1967 is approximately 17,000.

During the current year and the previous year, the highest rate of arrests among women was from the Al-Quds governorate, at 45%.

According to the Prisoners Commission, 17 female prisoners were sentenced to prison terms, the highest of whom were the two prisoners (Shorouq Dwayat and Shatila Abu Ayyad, 16 years old, and the two captives Aisha Al-Afghani and Maysoon Al-Jabali, 15 years old).

There is a female prisoner under the age of 18, named Nofoth Hammad, from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Quds.

There are 6 wounded prisoners, the most critical condition of whom is the case of the prisoner Esraa Jaabis from Quds, who has been sentenced for 11 years. She is among the most critical cases at the level of prisoners and detainees, as she has severe burns on her body and urgently needs several surgeries to help her, even in a small way, to overcome the severity of the pain.

There are two female prisoners who died during their detention inside the prisons of the occupation, namely the prisoner Saadia Faraj Allah from the town of Idna, Hebron district, who martyred last July of this year, after she was subjected to a crime of medical negligence during her detention in Damoon Detention Center, and the prisoner Fatima Taqaqata from Bethlehem, who was arrested after being shot by the occupation, and died in May 2017 in the Israeli “Shaarei Tzedek” hospital.

The female prisoners face bad detention conditions and harsh living conditions inside the “Damoon” prison, and the occupation authorities also deliberately deprive them of receiving treatment by neglecting them medically and ignoring their illnesses, and depriving them of visits to their families under flimsy pretexts.