The families of the Jordanian prisoners in Israel

Ayman Fadilat - Amman

On the hotter day, the seven-year-old pilgrim, Noah Abu Jaber, is waiting for his son Abdullah, the Jordanian prisoner, to be held in Israeli jails - once a month for 15 minutes "not enough to check on his conditions in prison."

"Today my son Abdullah completes 19 years of his detention by the Zionist army, after raising our heads by blowing up an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv in 2000. We wait for the next year to be released and come back to us," Abu Jaber told Al Jazeera Net, with tears in his eyes.

He added: I visited him once in 2008 ten years ago, when the Jordanian Foreign Ministry organized a visit to the families of the prisoners to the Zionist prisons, and then I did not see him, and his mother died and she brags not to see him.

The number of Jordanians in Israeli jails is 19 prisoners, while the number of missing persons reaches 30, including members of the Arab army lost in the 1976 war, the last of which was lost in 2007, according to the committee of the families of Jordanian prisoners.

The oldest two prisoners
Abdullah Abu Jaber and Omar Atatra are the two oldest Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails. They serve 20-year sentences and their sentences expire next year.

The suffering of the Jordanian prisoners in Israeli prisons is compounded by the rest of their fellow prisoners, who are deprived of visiting their relatives and relatives for long periods of years, in which the loved ones die without seeing them.

Released prisoner Wael Al-Amir tells Al-Jazeera Net that he deliberately painted the pictures of his sons and parents on the wall of the prison, so as not to erase their images from his memory, the severity of torture and torture and solitary confinement for months and years forgetting the prisoner's name and his intervention in psychological and physical diseases that take his memory.

During the five years he spent in Israeli jails, he was not visited by any of his family in Jordan because of the denial of the occupation. He said that preventing the prisoner from visiting his relatives is a method of torture during the occupation.

Difficult conditions
The Committee of the Families of Jordanian Prisoners in Israeli Prisons is responsible for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for failing to organize a visit to the families of the prisoners. The last visit was arranged in 2008, in which 19 of the families of the 29 prisoners were involved.

"The Jordanian prisoners are living in difficult conditions in Israeli jails. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry demanded that the Jordanian Foreign Ministry fulfill its duty to defend Jordanian prisoners and secure their rights and periodic visits to their families," he told the Jordanian embassy staff in Tel Aviv.

External efforts
For its part, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced that it is currently working on arranging a visit to the prisoner Abdullah Abu Jaber after receiving a request from his family, preceded by multiple visits over the previous years of the parents to their children, according to a statement by the official spokesman for Foreign Affairs Sufian al-Qudah.

The judges added that visits by the parents of the detainees to their children continued and did not stop, especially in the recent period, and the last visit arranged by the ministry is to the father of captive Mohammed Mahdi Suleiman on January 16 last.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry continued to monitor the situation of Jordanians in Israeli prisons on an ongoing basis, especially health and prison conditions, and called for working to improve those conditions and ensure fair trials and dealing with them in accordance with international treaties.

The youngest Jordanian prisoner is Muhammad Mahdi Suleiman, who was arrested by Israeli forces in 2013 when he was 15 years old. His father was deprived of his visit ever since, until he entered a hunger strike last year in front of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry until arranging a visit to his son last month. .