As the world celebrates International Women's Day, which falls on the eighth of March of every year, Palestinian women suffer various kinds of suffering from the occupation, especially the 49 prisoners who are imprisoned in Damoun prison.
Torture and humiliation
The freed prisoner Khalida Jarrar, who was released from prison a few days ago, confirmed that the prisoners were suffering around the clock.
The jailer devises new methods of humiliating and torturing them, neglecting them medically, and putting them in the bosta, which is a mobile iron box from court to court and from prison to prison.
As for the medical negligence in prisons, especially women prisoners, the case of prisoner Esraa al-Jabbais is one of the most difficult cases among women prisoners, which require urgent surgery after severe burns during arrest. In addition to the amputation of 8 fingers, while delaying the occupation in the operations required by the pretexts flimsy.
As for the suffering of the women prisoners, the liberated prisoner Suheir Barghouthi, the mother of the martyr Saleh Barghouthi, says that the prisoners are the most suffering: the iron handcuffs, the harsh cold in the cells and the prison rooms, the transfer from the court to the prison through the bosta,
As well as Israeli assaults on women prisoners and insulting them with dirty words.
16 thousand arrests
The Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees Authority said that the occupation authorities continue to violate the rights of Palestinian women through repressive practices against them. More than 16,000 women have been arrested and imprisoned in Israeli jails since 1967.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the organization stressed that on the day that women are honored in the world, Palestinian women continue to kill, arrest and violate their rights by the occupiers. All human rights organizations and women's rights advocates must end the suffering of women prisoners as soon as possible.
Contrary to the Geneva Convention
The Prisoners 'and Prisoners' Affairs Committee noted that: "The occupation authorities continued this year a campaign of arrests of a number of women without taking into account the humanitarian situation enjoyed by women,
Where many of the women detainees were subjected to brutal attacks in front of their children and their spouses, and some of them suffered from difficult conditions of physical and psychological during investigation.
Forty-nine female prisoners are currently being held in the Damoun prison, including 20 women have children and 6 women prisoners who were shot during the arrests.
The Committee clarified that the place of detention of prisoners is contrary to all international and humanitarian norms and laws and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which stipulates in article 85 that "a healthy environment must be provided for prisoners and prisoners."