On the day of the Jordanian prisoner .. Has Wadi Araba safeguarded the freedoms and rights of Jordanians?

Mahmoud al-Sharaan-Amman

`` I came from Jordan with my mother and aunt to attend the wedding of my aunt's daughter.I had planned a five-day holiday full of joy, but the occupation took me to a second world that I did not expect in my bad nightmares. ''

A gift from the Prisoners' Committee revealed the extent of the suffering of detainees in Israeli jails and subjected them to violations starting from arrest, interrogation and torture, and not ending with inhuman abuses.

Jordan's al-Labadi, 32, is approaching her first month of hunger strike to protest her five-month administrative detention without charge, after her arrest at the King Hussein border crossing on August 20 as she and her mother traveled to the West Bank for a family visit.

Heba is subjected to systematic torture, according to her message: "The investigation is psychological torture and very violent, very long hours in the interrogation room sitting and bound and tied to a chair, which caused me severe pressure on the back, hands and neck."

"The interrogators were screaming and sitting in close proximity in front of me, their chairs were close to me, their method was very provocative, and they called me the dirtiest of qualities."

Great interest
The message of the prisoner received great attention among the Jordanian circles, considering that the Jordanian official authorities bear the responsibility for the arrest of al-Labadi and the responsibility of all Jordanian prisoners in the occupation.

This coincides with the arrest of Jordanian youth Abdul Rahman Merhi, 28, who has been detained since September 2, who has been suffering from cancer for years and needs regular treatment.

The stories of Labadi and Merhi coincided with the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty "Wadi Araba", which was signed on October 26, 1994.

The story of the Jordanian Abdel Rahman began the moment of his arrest at the crossing of King Hussein Bridge, and an Israeli court sentenced him to administrative detention for four months without charge, but his lawyer Mahmoud al-Halabi concluded that his charge could be "participating in celebrations against the occupation," according to his father Adnan Marei.

His father tells Al-Jazeera Net that my son has been suffering from a cancerous tumor in the soft tissues in the right nasal cavity since 2007. He has undergone several surgeries, most recently at Rambam Hospital in occupied Haifa, and we are concerned about his deteriorating health.

The Jordanian prisoner Abdel Rahman threatens to enter an open hunger strike, if he is not released, because there is no charge on which the Israeli occupation authorities are based.

22 Jordanian prisoners
After a quarter of a century of peace, the list of Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails rises to 22, according to the National Committee for Jordanian Prisoners and Missing Persons in Israeli Prisons.

The peace treaty and its annexes do not mention the file of detainees or administrative detainees, either from the Jordanian or Israeli side, but there has been no Jordanian prisoner convicted since the signing of the treaty, according to official sources.

Jordanian prisoner Abdel Barghouti, who holds the highest sentence in the Israeli jails, has been sentenced to 67 times life imprisonment, in addition to 5200 years, accused of killing 67 Israelis during a series of operations between 2000 and 2003.

The occupation sentenced 6 Jordanian prisoners to life imprisonment, the largest of which was 11 for the Jordanian prisoner Mari Abu Saida, 5 for Munir Mari, 4 for Hisham Kaabi, and 3 others for life.

Ten Jordanians were sentenced to varying sentences, the longest of which was 36 years for Nasser Daraghmeh, 27 years for prisoner Anas Hathnawi, four Jordanians sentenced to 20 years, and three others sentenced to between 15 and 6 years. 80 months.

Israel has detained five Jordanians without charge, including Heba and Abdel Rahman, the oldest of whom is Thaer Khalaf, who has been detained since 2018.

"Standard" procedures
During the years of peace, the Kingdom, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, follows up the file of Jordanian detainees in the prisons of the Occupying Power with procedures described by some families of prisoners as "normal".

The Foreign Ministry reiterated its assurances that the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv will continue to follow up "the affairs of Jordanians in Israeli prisons."

In the same context, parliamentary sources quoted Al-Jazeera Net talk of Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on the efforts of the State to secure visits to the families of detainees, in addition to seeking to follow up the file of detainees without charge or trial and the number of five Jordanians.

For his part, MP Khalil Attia describes the Wadi Araba treaty as "unjust", and says that the Jordanian negotiator has overstated the file of the release of Jordanian detainees, a disregard for the rights of prisoners.

Attiyah explains to Al Jazeera Net that he sent a letter to the Jordanian Prime Minister to demand foreign support in the file of prisoners at the occupation, stressing the need for decisive decisions, such as expelling the Israeli ambassador from Amman.

30 Jordanians missing
On the side of the Jordanian prisoners file, there is the file of missing persons who have been trapped for many years. The Kingdom lost 30 Jordanians in different periods of time, the first of which was in 1967 where 25 Jordanians were lost, followed by the loss of five others, the last one in 2007.

Jordan is following up on the file of the missing, and during the period of "bitter peace" tasted by the families of the prisoners and missing persons, a national committee has been formed for the Jordanian prisoners and missing persons in the occupation state, aiming to follow up the conditions of their children in Israeli jails, according to the committee's reporter Fadi Farah.

Farah explains to Al Jazeera Net that the committee stresses the need to demand the Jordanian government to follow up the file of Jordanian prisoners in Israeli prisons in a serious and diligent manner, in addition to pressure on the occupation government to provide visits to the families of prisoners deprived of seeing their children since 2008.