She suffered from chronic diseases inside the occupation prisons as a result of deliberate neglect

Editing Nisreen Abu Kamil: I have been deprived of seeing my seven children for 6 years

• Ahmed (6 years) has not left his mother's arms since her release.

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• Abu Kamil was forbidden to visit her children.

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• Abu Kamil refers to the calendar prepared by her sons.

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“One day before liberation from the occupation’s prisons, I had a fear that my little boy Ahmed would not know me. The occupation arrested me while he was in his eighth month, but when I entered Gaza through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, he hugged me and said, “You are my mother.” Immediately I removed That phrase is the tragedies of six years of deprivation behind the bars of Israeli prisons.”

This is how the liberated Palestinian prisoner, Nisreen Abu Kamil, describes the moment she met her seven sons, after the occupation allowed her to enter the Gaza Strip, three days after her release from the Israeli Damon prison, where 31 Palestinian female prisoners are held, most of whom are mothers.

Abu Kamil continued her speech by saying: “Since the first day of my return to my home, my son Ahmed (six years old) did not leave me for one moment, whether inside or outside the house, and the next day he woke me up early, and spent his time in my lap, and then asked me to prepare for him and his brothers breakfast, and this was the most beautiful moment, when I gathered with my sons and my husband under one roof and one table, after lean years of forced separation.”

Ghost and torture

"Emirates Today" met Abu Kamil inside her house in the neighborhood of "Tal al-Hawa" in the southwest of Gaza City, where he was teeming with women who came to congratulate the liberated captive on her release from the occupation prisons.

The liberated Palestinian prisoner recounts the details of her arrest by the occupation forces at the Erez crossing on October 18, 2015, while she was on her way to visit her parents and siblings in Haifa, where she was born.

It turned out that the occupation soldiers immediately took her to the "Ashkelon" military detention camp, and she stayed inside the interrogation center for 21 continuous days, during which she was subjected to a harsh interrogation and physical torture.

Abu Kamil continues by saying: “After 11 days of detention in Ashkelon detention center, I was subjected to what is known as Operation Shabeh, where my hands were tied, and I was suspended from the ceiling of the interrogation room, while my feet were 20 centimeters above the ground, and I remained in this condition for 24 continuous hours. Meanwhile, the soldiers were pouring cold water on my face and body, while my hands and legs were tied.”

She adds, "During the interrogation, I was exposed to a series of trumped-up charges, as the occupation issued false pretexts against me, namely planning to blow up Israeli government headquarters and recruiting Palestinian youth to enter the occupied Palestinian territories. This is pure slander and a lie. At the moment of arrest, only my personal bags.

chronic diseases

After the investigation ended in Ashkelon prison, the occupation detained her in Hasharon Prison, and after several weeks, she was transferred to Damon Prison, where she spent the period of captivity behind bars, until she was released on October 17.

Abu Kamil points out that as a result of the tragic conditions of detention and deliberate medical neglect by the Israeli Prison Service Administration, she developed chronic diseases weeks after her arrest, including pressure, diabetes, chest allergies, and leg tumors.

Regarding this, the liberated captive says: “After moving to Damon prison, I discovered that I had pressure and leg tumors, and then I began to suffer from other chronic diseases, and the occupation was procrastinating in providing appropriate treatment, and when I asked them to provide medicine, they would bring only palliative medicines.”

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Abu Kamil adds: "When the occupation arrested me, my children were young, to deprive me for the duration of the captivity of their embrace and care, to spend their years of life, and prison bars prevented me from watching them grow up in front of my eyes day after day."

The ages of Nisreen Abu Kamil's sons at the time of her arrest were: Firas, 13, Faris, 12, Amira, 11, Malak, 9, Dalia, 8, Nadine, 5, and the youngest of whom was Ahmed, who was eight months old.

Abu Kamil continues: The occupation denied me visiting my seven sons and my husband for six years, and whenever I submitted a request to be allowed to visit them, the Prison Authority administration rejected it, on the grounds that it was not allowed to visit my family from the Gaza Strip, while the families of the female prisoners came to visit them several times during the same year.

She adds: One of the evidences that the occupation deliberately prevented me from visiting my children is that the families of the female prisoners from Gaza used to bring me pictures of my children on every visit, and this was the only way that enabled me to see my children of all ages.

Pictures of her children were not Nisreen's only companion behind bars, as she used to hear her children's voice almost daily on local Palestinian radios, namely, Voice of Prisoners, Ajyal Radio, Voice of Palestine and Al-Raya Radio.

The liberated captive says: I used to hear the voice of my sons on the Palestinian radio stations, which were dedicated to several programs to send the sons and families of prisoners voice messages to their families behind bars. On fire.” My sons were telling me via voice messages that they had passed their final exams and had moved on to a new stage of study.

She adds: Only a few kilometers separated me from my children, and despite that, I was deprived of embracing and visiting them, but their images and voices made me forget my loneliness, and they were my only refuge to relieve my sadness, as a result of the forced distance from them.

Among the audio messages that Abu Kamil's sons sent to her on Palestinian radios, they prepared a calendar, including the last 100 days of her detention.

Abu Kamil continues by saying: I also made a “calendar”, just like the one that my children prepared, and every day that goes by I put a circle on it, until those days passed and I met my children, and I watched that “calendar” that I touched their hands daily, to remain a living witness to the tragedy that deprived me of my children over the course of many years.

The occupation had prevented the editor, Abu Kamil, from reaching her family after her release, claiming that she possessed an Israeli identity card, as she hails from the city of Haifa, but she refused and insisted on returning to her children and family in the Gaza Strip.

After three days that Abu Kamil spent at the Erez Crossing, and inside Palestinian homes in the Palestinian cities of Hebron and Rahat, the occupation allowed her to enter Gaza, according to several conditions, namely not allowing her for two years to leave Gaza, not reaching the occupied Palestinian interior, and paying a fine of 4000 shekels.

• “The occupation denied me visiting my seven sons and my husband over a period of six years, and every time I submitted a request to allow them to visit, the Prison Authority administration rejected it, on the grounds that it was not allowed to visit my family from the Gaza Strip, while the families of the female prisoners came to visit them several times during one year.”

• “I used to hear the voice of my sons on the Palestinian radio stations, which devoted several programs to sending the sons of prisoners and their families voice messages to their families behind bars, and my sons were telling me that they had passed the final exams and moved to a new stage of study.”

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