Seven years have passed since the arrest of Palestinian Amal Jihad Taqatqa, but the six injuries to her body still remind her of all the details of that moment, which was accompanied by an assault and kicking by settlers and Israeli occupation soldiers.

The occupation released Amal Taqatqa, 27, from the town of Beit Fajjar, Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank, on Tuesday evening, after she had spent 7 continuous years inside the Israeli prisons, and as one of the wounded prisoners, and 31 Palestinian female prisoners remained behind.

She was wearing the Palestinian dress when we visited her at her home the day after her release, and despite the joy of being released from prison, the agony of talking about the moment of arrest does not leave her.

She tells Al Jazeera Net: that when she was arrested in early December 2014, on the pretext of attempting to carry out a commando operation, she was shot with 6 bullets, two in the chest area, a third in the flank, and a fourth and fifth in her feet, in addition to a stun grenade that hit her left hand. The settlers, despite the fact that she was assaulted all over her body, summed it up by saying, "They broke me because of the beatings."

The difficult feeling at that time, according to Amal Taqatqa, was that she could not defend herself, and she was transferred to Ein Karem Hospital in occupied Jerusalem, and she remained in intensive care for 7 days, and when she regained consciousness, she met the Shin Bet interrogator who told her: “We brought you to the hospital not because we We want you to survive, but to see why you resisted us."

Amal Taqatqa breathes the air of freedom in front of her house in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after spending 7 years in captivity (Al-Jazeera)

Torture and insults

Amal tells Al Jazeera Net that she was subjected to the worst forms of torture, including beatings, insults, obscene insults, and insults to the divine as well as Islam, because she is a Muslim.

The occupation transferred Amal several times to the Ramle prison hospital, and Platinum was placed in her left foot, and it was supposed to be replaced after two years, but that did not happen until after 6 years, because there was a long delay in treatment, as she put it.

When I mentioned the Ramleh prison clinic, she smiled and said: The Israelis are very sophisticated in treating patients, but they want to deliberately kill the prisoners, and if they provide treatment to the prisoner, it is because they want to interrogate him and extract information from him by force.

hard talk

She said about the Ramleh prison clinic: Many of the martyrs of the captive movement rose in this prison, the last of whom was the martyr Sami Al-Amour, who was martyred due to medical negligence on the 18th of last November.

When Amal spoke about Al-Amour, she prayed to God to return his body to his family, saying: "Glory be to God, instead of praying to God to return it to his family... I say: God returned his body to his family, and what is the most difficult of these words, and only my prayer today is that his body be buried." in his town."

Amal describes the treatment of doctors and nurses at the Ramle prison clinic as barbaric and racist. Although she did not complete her treatment, she was transferred to Damoun Prison in a wheelchair, where the female prisoners performed their daily treatment until she walked back on her feet again.

Amal holds a picture of the prisoner Esraa Al-Jaabis, who suffers from burns all over her body, and the occupation is procrastinating in her treatment (Al-Jazeera)

Amal Taqatqa mentioned the captive Esraa Al-Jaabis, who described her with the same burning body, and told Al-Jazeera Net: "Isra and all the sick prisoners and prisoners demand a simple right, which is treatment," noting that the occupation promised Israa that he would perform an operation to loosen her stuck fingers, but his condition was To collect 700 similar cases!

Commenting on that, he said: "The aim of this demand is incapacitating, as you may get out of prison and not collect this number to start treating it."

Challenge and hope

Despite all these painful details, Amal Taqatqa believes that Palestinian female prisoners today have turned the prison yard, which is completely monitored by the jailers’ cameras around the clock, into a arena for activities, culture, education and entertainment, stressing that there are female prisoners who complete their university education and learn different skills.

Amal sees that the prisoners today view the Palestinian resistance as a hope for their liberation, the liberation of all the holy sites and the entire land of Palestine.

The occupation was not satisfied with capturing Amal for 7 years, but continued to spread its hatred against her, as her father tells Al Jazeera Net.

Fatigue and stress were evident in the eyes of her father and mother, who waited for her at the Al-Jalama military checkpoint in Jenin in the northern West Bank, for nearly 6 hours, despite knowing that she had left prison early, only to find out later that the occupation was interrogating her and moving her from one room to another, in an attempt to intimidate her. Even in the last moments of her captivity, according to her father.

Before we left, Amal's mother put a wreath on her liberated daughter's head. Amal went from her house to the yard of the house, and breathed the air of her town, smiling, heading to her next guests to congratulate her on freedom.