# Save ... Israa ... Campaign to release a wounded Palestinian woman prisoner

Heba Aslan - Jerusalem

Three years ago, the wounded Palestinian woman, Esraa Jabais, the daughter of the village of Jabal al-Mukaber south of Jerusalem, is eating her body, which is getting worse and is still suffering from burns that have left her with 60% of her body.

The Israeli occupation prison authorities prevent the Israa family from introducing the tools that help their daughter in her detention. After her hands are melted and stuck together, she finds her unable to lay her hair, shower, wash her teeth, wear her clothes or eat without the help of her colleagues in captivity.

Her sister, Mona, describes how her wringing hands come to bear the spoon and try to rely on herself for food, which, as a result of her inability to control her hands, drops more than half before reaching her mouth, especially since her lower lip is also melted by fire.

Her sister explained her many attempts to introduce a glass cup that she could control and carry, but the prison administration allowed only a plastic cup that could not be replaced with a new one two and a half years ago.

Fire burns the flesh
The body of Esra, 32, was charged with fire on October 11, 2015, when Israeli soldiers opened fire on her vehicle, which was carrying a gas cylinder that she had bought for her house, but exploded and burned the body of Israa before she was arrested.

Esra burns and pains require surgery, which is rejected by the administration of the occupation prisons on the grounds that the required cosmetic operations.

"The sister of the prison administration needs to dislodge the ears, the fingers, and the process that helps her to breathe through her mouth.

Esra also suffers from severe itching as a result of the dryness of her burned skin. Excessions and bruises appeared on large parts of the body, especially around the ears and behind the neck, as well as the hands that have become visible over time.

For the second time in three years, the Issara family has been forced to launch a campaign to rescue her daughter, release her first, or provide treatment within the prison.

Self-campaign
The family launched a media campaign to try and draw attention and move the Palestinian, Arab and international public opinion to pressure the Israeli government to release or deal with it.

The interaction with her sister Mona's campaign varies from one city to another. This is what Ahmed Al-Dork, one of the organizers of the campaign, points to the great interaction in his city of Tulkarem, while describing this interaction shyly in cities like Ramallah and Jerusalem And Bethlehem.

According to Ahmed, one of the most important problems that prevent the campaign from spreading in a manner appropriate to the size of the suffering of a wounded prisoner, is the absence of interaction in certain groups such as leading figures, writers and intellectuals.

Mahmud Dardasawi, a campaigner from Jordan, seems happier in terms of the interaction with the campaign's branding through social media, the visual media, and some media professionals whose content has thousands of followers.

Differences in the size of solidarity with Isra Jabais on social networks (Al Jazeera)

Intolerance of occupation
This campaign has been hampered by the obstruction of the administration of the Israeli prison administration over the treatment of Isra, who is sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to her lawyer Tariq Barghouth, the dispute with the administration lies in the fact that what the burning body of Isra needs is no more than plastic surgery.

Barghouth warns that the continued detention of Israa in these circumstances may lead to results or an unfortunate "calamity." The options currently available for release are pressure from the leadership of the Palestinian National Authority, which may lead to amnesty by the head of state of occupation .

The second possible scenario is that a special committee within the Prisons Service will consider the Israa family's request for release, and may recommend that the prisoner's condition does not allow her to remain in the prison.

Until the campaign achieves its goals, Esra continues to live with her pain. Only Mutasem (10 years old) remains waiting for her to return to her lap, deprived of her vision of not having a permit to enter Jerusalem and visit his mother in prison.