They suffer medical neglect and a lack of family visits

39 Palestinian prisoners face difficult humanitarian and detention conditions

• The husband and children of the captive Nisreen Abu Kumil are barred from visiting.

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• The head of the documentation unit at the Palestinian Prisoners and Executives Affairs Authority, Abdel Nasser Farawana.

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• Israa Al-Jaabis suffers from multiple burns.

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• The captive Shatila Abu Clinic is serving a 16-year prison sentence. ■ Archives

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Five years ago, the occupation disappeared the term childhood from the life of the Palestinian girl Amira Abu Kumil from the Gaza Strip, as she became a mother from a young age, given the task of caring for and raising her six children's siblings (three girls and three boys), after Israel arrested her mother, Nisreen. In October 2015, when she was 11 years old.

As for her brother Ahmed, he was eight months old, the moment his mother was arrested, and today he reached the age of six, as he grew up year after year, and he is deprived of the warmth of his mother’s embrace, whom he knows only through pictures. She was arrested, and she only allowed them to talk to her on the phone once, for 15 minutes, over the past five years.

Suffering and deprivation

The Palestinian prisoner, Nisreen Abu Kumil (45 years), is serving a six-year sentence inside the Israeli Damon prison, which is designated for the arrest of Palestinian female prisoners, while she suffers from serious diseases that she contracted inside the detention centers, such as diabetes, pressure, and sore feet, according to her husband Hazem Abu Kamel.

Abu Kumil continues, saying: "My captive wife fell ill with diseases inside the occupation detention centers, as she suffered and still is harsh humanitarian conditions, during her movement over the past five years between Israeli prisons, including: Ramla, Ashkelon, and Sharon, to the Damoon detention center."

The prisoner, Nisreen Abu Kumil, suffers from clear negligence in obtaining the necessary medical care and providing the necessary treatment for her, which has caused a deterioration in her health and exacerbated her suffering inside prison, as a result of her being denied seeing her children and visiting her.

Abu Kumil points out that he and his children have not been able to visit his captive wife since her arrest, adding: "We only saw her in pictures, after the prisoners were allowed to photograph, as she sent her pictures to us with the families of the prisoners who were able to visit their children."

Human tragedies

The suffering of the female prisoner, Nisreen Abu Kumil, is part of the suffering of Palestinian female prisoners in the Israeli jails, who suffer extremely harsh living and detention conditions, as the Palestinian Prisoners and Executives Affairs Authority revealed that 39 Palestinian prisoners in the Damon and Sharon detainees have been subjected to very difficult humanitarian tragedies by the Israeli Prison Administration.

The director of documentation at the Palestinian Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority, Abdel Nasser Farwana, in an exclusive interview with Emirates Today, indicated that the Palestinian prisoners are subjected to medical neglect by the Israeli detention administration, and the failure to provide them with the necessary medical treatment, especially for those who are sick, and leave them with pain that ravages their bodies. Al-Nahaila, indicating that all of them need close and specialized medical follow-up.

Farwana says: “Medical negligence is a real tragedy, and the prisoners suffer bitterness, especially the cases afflicted with serious and chronic diseases. She needs to undergo surgery to remove the platinum from her leg, and the captive Samar Abu Taher, who complains of diabetes.

He added: "The captive, Iman Awar, suffers from cancerous masses in the vocal tendons, and Rawan Abu Ziada suffers from pain in the neck and stomach, in addition to many prisoners who suffer from various chronic diseases, and in need of continuous medical follow-up."

The simplest rights

According to Farwana, Palestinian women prisoners in Damon submitted several demands to the administration of the detention center, to improve their living conditions, including: removing surveillance cameras from the Fora Square, which numbered 20, as it limits their movement and violates their privacy, and allows them to make phone calls with their families. Visits have been interrupted, for now, due to Corona's circumstances.

The women prisoners demanded finding a solution for the al-Maabar section of the Sharon prison, in which the newly arrested and detained prisoners are being held in poor and inhumane conditions, and repairing the damaged facilities in the section, especially the al-Furah square, and coating its floors with an appropriate material to prevent slipping.

The official of the Documentation Unit at the Prisoners' Affairs and Executives Authority indicates that these just demands are presented by female prisoners for the tenth time in a row, to obtain the most basic rights guaranteed by all international laws and norms, indicating that the Israeli Prison Administration follows a policy of procrastination and false promises.

On the other hand, Umm Ali Abu Ayada, the mother of the captive Shatila, confirms, in her interview with Emirates Today, that her daughter suffers from a shortage and lack of basic needs and requirements inside the Damun detention camp, pointing out that she was unable to visit her captive daughter inside the prison or talk to her by phone. Since last March, due to Corona's measures.

The captive Shatila Abu Ayada (27 years), a Bedouin girl from the town of Kafr Qasim in the occupied Palestinian triangle, is serving a 16-year sentence in Damon detention center since her arrest in 2016, which is the highest among Palestinian female prisoners in the occupation prisons.

Umm Ali Abu Ayada explains that one of the forms of suffering that her daughter and all Palestinian prisoners face is transportation via Busa cars, where she stays inside for long hours from dawn until night time, without the availability of safety means inside, in addition to her mixing with Israeli female criminal prisoners, which exposes her to assault Physical and verbal of them.

Facts and figures

The number of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails is 4,400, including 155 children ... and 39 women, including 16 mothers.

The official of the documentation unit at the Palestinian Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority, Abdel Nasser Farwana, indicated that the number of Palestinian female prisoners is distributed in all Palestinian areas, as the number of female prisoners from Jerusalem is 12, two from the Gaza Strip, and six from the occupied Palestinian interior. Residents of the West Bank, numbering 19 prisoners.

Among the total number of female prisoners there are 23 prisoners who have been issued with different sentences. Eight prisoners are serving high sentences of more than 10 years, and nine others are serving sentences ranging between five and 10 years, while the two prisoners: Shorouk Dwayyat and Shatila Abu Ayada are the highest. 16 years old.

The captive, Amal Jihad Taqatqa, is considered the oldest female prisoner, serving a seven-year sentence.

- In "Damoun", the Palestinian prisoners submitted several demands to the administration of the detention center, to improve their living conditions, including: removing the 20 surveillance cameras from the al-Furah square, as it limits their movement, violates their privacy, and allows them to make phone calls with their families.

- The number of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails is 4,400, including 155 children ... 

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