By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
Illegally Nazi occupied Ramallah: The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies has documented the arrest of more than 15,000 women and girls since 1967, while 2100 women and girls have been arrested since the Al-Aqsa Intifada, including dozens of minors, wounds, patients and elderly women.
The Center added that the occupation escalated during the Jerusalem Intifada in 2015 from the policy of arresting women and girls, where the number of arrests reached about (800) cases, including minors and injuries, and still (44) prisoners in the Israeli jails, including (20) mother with dozens of children .
He called for stopping all forms of abuse and torture against Palestinian prisoners in Nazi camps and their release .
In a press release on the occasion of the International Day Against Violence against Women, which falls on the 25th of November each year, PCHR called upon the international community to implement the provisions of humanitarian conventions on the ground without favoritism or political hypocrisy of any party .
He stressed that the occupation authorities practice all forms of torture, violence and abuse of Palestinian prisoners in prisons without deterrence .
He explained that international institutions enact laws and legislate that prohibit violence and torture against women, but turn a blind eye to the excesses of the occupation and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, which encourages the occupation to continue these inhuman practices .
He added that there are 29 female prisoners serving different sentences, including 8 women prisoners whose sentences are more than 10 years, above the two families; the wounded Shurooq Salah Dwayat (22 years) from Jerusalem, and Shatila Suleiman Abu Ayada (26 years) from the occupied interior, and issued by the Israeli courts Sentenced to 16 years in prison .
He said that the occupation issued more than (64) administrative decision against women and girls between the new and renewal, and is still held in the prisons of two prisoners under administrative detention, and they are the captive Alaa Bashir of Qalqilya and Sunrise of the body from Bethlehem .
Al-Ashqar pointed out that the prisoners suffer from the policy of deliberate medical negligence, whether for sick or wounded patients who were shot, and complain for many years of the lack of a female doctor in the prison clinic to care for them, and the lack of appropriate medicines for cases of sick prisoners .
PCHR appealed to international human rights and humanitarian institutions, especially those concerned with mirror issues, not to double standards, to provide justice for Palestinian prisoners, to release all of them from prisons, and to intervene urgently to end their ongoing suffering.
