Female prisoners with no shepherd to free them!!
News:
The Palestinian Prisoner Society affirmed that the occupation continues to detain 49 Palestinian women, including two children and a female prisoner from Gaza, who face organized and systematic crimes of repression inside the occupation prisons and investigation centers. In a statement on the occasion of the so-called (Palestinian Women's National Day), the club explained that the pace of these crimes has escalated unprecedentedly since the outbreak of the war of extermination, which constituted the bloodiest stage in the history of the Palestinian people, and its effects continue to leave their harsh imprint on the reality of female prisoners.
Comment:
Since October 7, 2023, until today, more than 595 cases of arrest have been documented among women in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the occupied territories in 1948, while accurate statistics are not available for the number of women who were arrested from Gaza. The policy of arresting women as hostages has witnessed a dangerous escalation during the war, as the occupation used this method to pressure members of the female prisoners' families to surrender themselves. This policy included wives of prisoners and martyrs, and elderly mothers over the age of seventy, and was accompanied by acts of abuse and destruction of homes, confiscation of property, and terrorizing children, in addition to threatening the female prisoners with the killing of their detained husbands or sons.
The stage that followed the war of extermination imposed radical transformations on the conditions of detention of female prisoners in terms of severity and level, and was accompanied by a series of repressive crimes, most notably - according to the testimonies of female prisoners - their detention in dirty cells that lack the most basic necessities of life. The repeated raids on those cells and their exposure to strip searches, shackling and beating, harassment and threats of rape, humiliating removal to the prison yards, being forced into humiliating positions, providing spoiled food and worn-out mattresses that are not suitable for use, and turning the simplest needs of the female prisoners into a tool for collective punishment, including sanitary napkins and clothing. They are also deprived of ventilation in the summer and heating in the winter, in addition to preventing family and lawyer visits, and continuous collective isolation, as reported by released female prisoners and others inside prisons in documented testimonies.
It is worth mentioning that one of the most important reasons for arrest in this stage is against the background of freedom of opinion and expression, or what the occupation claims is incitement on electronic media, where the majority of female prisoners are currently being held on the background of incitement, and 12 of them are under administrative detention. While others are being administratively detained under the pretext of a secret file.
This is the unjust occupation that practices all kinds of violence and torture against women, children, and men without the slightest component of humanity. As for the politicians and leaders, they are watching and have preoccupied the world with a few Jewish prisoners who are not subjected to the slightest ill-treatment. This is happening while the client authority, instead of working to release these female prisoners, is busy with plans to corrupt women and society, cover up its corruption and the corruption of its members, and persecute the honorable and those who speak the truth, throwing them into prisons to silence their voices, following a policy of repression that does not differ much from the policy of the Jews. Both have the same goal, which is to liquidate the cause of Palestine.
But as the Lord of Glory said in his dear Book: ﴿AND [remember, O Muhammad], when those who disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you or kill you or evict you [from Makkah]. But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners.﴾.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir Radio
Muslimah Al-Shami (Um Suhaib)
