The suffering of 32 Palestinian female prisoners in occupation jails exacerbates due to medical negligence

Occupied Al-Quds, (ST) – She was 16 years old when the Israeli occupation forces detained her after firing 14 bullets at her left hand when she was leaving her school in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Al-Quds, (Jerusalem). Since that day, she has been imprisoned, suffering from the injustice of the jailer, and her pain is increasing day after day due to the occupation’s refusal to provide her with the necessary treatment.

It is the case of the Palestinian prisoner Marah Bakir, as her mother described it to the SANA correspondent, and it forms part of the suffering of 32 female prisoners who live in tragic conditions inside the Israeli occupation detention centers.

Marah’s mother, who lives in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Al-Quds, said: Despite the difficulty of Marah’s health condition, the occupation deliberately deprived her of treatment, which caused damage to 80 percent of the nerves in her hand and shattered the area extending from the elbow to the shoulder. She said that her daughter dreamed of completing her university studies, but the occupation deprived her of it.

For his part, the Head of the Documentation and Statistics Department at the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Abdel Nasser Farwana said that the occupation is detaining 32 female prisoners, 28 of whom are in “Damon” detention center, two female prisoners are in “Ramle” detention center, and two are in “Abu Kabir” detention center, and all of them face harsh conditions as a result of physical and psychological torture and deprivation of basic rights and family visits. He pointed out that the occupation has arrested 17,000 Palestinian women since 1967. “During their detention, they were subjected to all kinds of torture and deprivation”, he added.

Farwana stressed that the policy of deliberate medical negligence exacerbated the suffering of female prisoners, especially those who suffer from serious wounds and diseases, led by the prisoner Israa Al-Jaabis, who suffers from severe burns and the occupation refuses to treat her.

A spokesman for the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Amjad Al-Najjar stated that the prisoners will take a series of protest steps to reject the racist and repressive measures, the isolation policy, and the arbitrary transfers against the two prisoners, Fatima Shaheen and Ataf Jaradat, as the occupation imposed on them isolation, and in addition to that, it transfers them from one detention center to another, knowing that the prisoner Shaheen is injured and suffering from paralysis. He called for the launch of an international solidarity campaign to support the female prisoners and demand their release.

In her turn, Maryam Abu Daqqa, a member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine indicated that the policy of systematic medical neglect against male and female prisoners aims to kill them slowly and should be confronted, exposed and stopped. She indicated that the seriousness of the conditions of female prisoners requires serious action from the free people of the world and all international humanitarian and human rights organizations to save them and all prisoners from the clutches of death in detention centers and oblige the occupation to release them and stop its crimes against them.

Raghda Sawas