On Mother's Day. 5 Palestinian Mothers in Israeli Jails

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a report issued on Mother's Day that the Israeli authorities continue to arrest 5 mothers, who are among the 29 women prisoners languishing in Damon Prison.

On the occasion of Mother's Day, which falls on March 21 of each year, the Prisoners' Club stated that "the occupation prisons administration deprives the prisoners' mothers' children and their children of open visits, and enables them to embrace them, in addition to depriving some of them of visits, or often obstructing them."

The mother prisoners are: Israa al-Jaabis, Fadwa Hamada, Amani al-Hashim, Etaf Jaradat, and Yasmine Shaaban.

The report pointed out that a group of mothers are serving sentences of years, including the prisoner Al-Jaabis, sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Fadwa Hamada and Amani Al-Hashim, who are serving a ten-year prison sentence.

He added that "the prisoners face all kinds of abuse and torture pursued by the occupation authorities against the detainees, starting with arrests from homes at dawn, until transfer to detention and interrogation centers, and later their detention in prisons and their deportation from their sons and daughters for a long time, and they continue to face a number of systematic policies that accompany them throughout the detention period, such as repression, abuse, and medical negligence, as happened with the martyr Saadia Farajallah (68 years old) from the town of Idna / Hebron, who rose on July 2, 2022, as a result of her exposure For the crime of medical negligence (slow killing), which constituted the most prominent policy during the past few years inside the occupation prisons, and led to her martyrdom and dozens of prisoners, and she was the mother of eight children, the occupation deprived her children of her forever, and after her martyrdom, he procrastinated in handing over her body.

The prisoners' club added that "the arrest of female prisoners is a means of pressuring their detained sons or a family member, and it is one of the most prominent policies used by the occupation against mothers, to inflict the greatest amount of psychological abuse, and the occupation sought through repression and its attempt to break the will of Palestinians and their families by targeting Palestinian mothers."