The report explained that this number does not include the number of female detainees from the Gaza Strip, of whom the fate of only 4 is unknown.
And he said Palestinian Prisoner Club In a statement, “The occupation arrested more than 435 people.” Women Since the beginning of the genocide war, this figure includes women who were arrested in and including the West Bank JerusalemAnd also women from the territories occupied in 1948, while there is no clear estimate of the number of women who were arrested from Gaza.”
The club added in its statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that the detainees “among them 33 mothers, 25 university students, 6 female journalists, and two lawyers. Among the female prisoners are wives of prisoners, mothers of prisoners, martyrs, and sisters of martyrs.”
The club explained in its statement that, “With the occupation carrying out the ground invasion of Gaza, it carried out widespread arrests of women from Gaza, including minors and elderly women, and detained them in army camps, in addition to the (Damoun) prison.”
The statement added, “In light of the occupation’s continued implementation of the crime of enforced disappearance against Gaza detainees, the institutions do not have clear data on their numbers, or those remaining in detention in camps under the administration of the army. As for (Damoun) prison, the number of female prisoners in Gaza today is 4.” “Prisoners.”
The statement quoted some of the stories of female detainees from the Gaza Strip who were released.
Among the testimonies included in the statement are “harsh testimonies about their arrests, their transfer to the camps, the humiliation, abuse, deprivation of all their rights, the threat of rape, their subjection to humiliating strip searches, and their exposure to harassment, in addition to the profanity and insults that the occupation soldiers deliberately used.” “In their right.”
There was no comment from the competent Israeli authorities regarding what was issued in the Prisoner’s Club statement regarding the conditions of Palestinian female detainees in Israeli prisons.
The statement said, “The occupation authorities detain the majority of female prisoners in (Damoun) prison as a central prison that they have historically used to detain Palestinian female prisoners, where female prisoners face harsh and difficult detention conditions.”
The statement indicated that the majority of female detainees who were not administratively detained “were charged with incitement on social media sites, which today constitute the most prominent pretext used by the occupation to arrest Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, as well as from the territories occupied in 1948.”
The statement presented an example of what Palestinian detainees are subjected to in Israeli prisons, including activist Khalida Jarrar, who has been subjected to the crime of solitary confinement in Neve Tertisia Prison for more than 100 days.
The statement said: “The prison administration is detaining her in tragic and harsh conditions of isolation, affecting all of her rights, and based on several visits conducted by human rights institutions, there is real fear for her fate.”
The statement stated that Israel “Jarrar was re-arrested administratively on December 26, 2023, from her home in Ramallah. She was transferred to administrative detention. An administrative detention order was issued against her, and throughout the past period she was detained in (Damoun) prison alongside the female prisoners.”
The statement added, “Jarrar is a former prisoner who was detained for about 5 years. She is a human rights and feminist activist and a former representative in the Legislative Council. Over the course of her repeated arrests, she faced retaliatory measures against her, the cruelest of which was depriving her of saying goodbye to her daughter, who died in her previous detention.”
The statement referred to another case, Shaima Rawajba, who has been in administrative detention since last April, and who has been suffering “since her arrest from a fracture in one of her feet, and after removing the cast, she suffered severe muscle weakness.”
The statement said that Shaima “is no longer able to eat any type of so-called meals and is vomiting continuously.”
The statement added that Rawajba’s case is just “one of at least 25 female prisoners who suffer from clear and difficult health problems and are in need of care.”
The Prisoners’ Club concluded its statement by calling on “the States Parties contracting to the Fourth Geneva Convention to end the physical and psychological abuse practiced by occupation soldiers during detention.” Palestinian women“.
