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Despite its threat of liquidation and security prosecution if it divulged any details about the story of her arrest, the former Palestinian detainee, Thanaa Hussein, insisted on telling her painful story, believing that this might move the world to save the disappeared in the secret detention centers of the Syrian regime.

The Palestinian refugee, Thana, was living with her husband in Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus, where she witnessed battles and sieges before the Syrian regime took control of it in early May 2018 and imposed a policy of forced displacement on those who refused to settle, as Thana’s husband preferred to stay with his wife inside the camp.

Thana tells Al Jazeera Net that her husband was arrested as part of the arrest campaigns for the security of the Syrian regime inside the camp, and he was completely cut off from her for several years, until she received news of his death under torture.

Detective Azrael

The Palestinian refugee, fighting back tears, describes how investigators from the regime's security came and arrested her from her place of work selling clothes in Yarmouk camp, and took her to the Patrols branch without knowing the charges against her.

Thana Hussein confirms that the branch members later transferred her to the notorious Palestine Branch, after learning that she was Palestinian, where she was raped and severely beaten with sticks and whips by an interrogator called Azrael, despite her begging him and her continuous crying.

Thana says to Al Jazeera Net that the interrogator always threatened her that she would die today during torture, directing the worst sexual insults to her for her dealings with the "terrorists" who wanted to overthrow the government in Syria and provide them with support, according to his opinion.

After 6 months of suffering and oppression, Thana won her freedom after an apology that the arrest was by mistake, which made an impact on herself, saying that time will never erase it in her life.

ready counts

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, which is concerned with Palestinian affairs in Syria, confirms that it has so far documented the detention of about 1,800 Palestinian refugees in the prisons of the Syrian regime, including 110 women who were arrested at the gates and entrances of Palestinian camps and security checkpoints of the regime in Syrian cities.

The group stated that 34 Palestinian refugee women died under torture in the regime's prisons without their bodies being handed over, including those who were identified through leaked photos of torture victims, in light of the regime's security services with secrecy over the fate and names of Palestinian female detainees.

The head of the media department in the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, Fayez Abu Eid, said that the Syrian security services do not need to submit charges in order to arbitrarily arrest people, as they have charges ready, such as the accusation of terrorism or dealing with the Syrian opposition forces.

Abu Eid added - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that the Syrian regime arrested people and women simply because one of their family members belongs to the Syrian opposition, or made phone calls to people in areas outside its control.

Abu Eid believes that the customs and traditions prevailing in some segments of Palestinian society, such as fear of tainting a reputation or scandal, prevented many families from reporting the disappearance or kidnapping of their daughters, or their assault by one of the conflicting parties inside Syria, which makes the documented numbers approximate. .

detained children

The categories of Palestinian detainees are not limited to adults. In its secret prisons, the Syrian regime detains a number of children with their families and others were arrested individually, at a time when their age is not enough for them to escape torture, and perhaps death from severe beatings and physical abuse.

In this context, the "Documentation Center for Palestinian Detainees and Missing Persons in Syria" confirmed the presence of about 780 children detained in the prisons of the security branches of the Syrian regime, pointing out that 45 of them died under torture.

The center listed the names of children detained for several years, ranging in age from 4 to 16 years, including the child Hadeel Itani (4 years), who was arrested with her mother while passing through a checkpoint of the Syrian regime forces in the city of Damascus in 2013.

There is no information about the fate of detained children and their places of detention since the moment of their arrest at the checkpoints of the regime forces deployed in the vicinity of refugee camps, or in the streets of Syrian cities under the control of the Syrian regime.