Nablus

- Nothing but anxiety and fear has surrounded Nisreen Al-Titi and her family in the Balata Palestinian refugee camp, east of Nablus, since Sunday afternoon, after the Israeli occupation arrested her sister Aseel Al-Titi (21 years), her mother Khitam and her brother Mahmoud, and claimed that Aseel stabbed an Israeli soldier during her visit to her captive brother. Seven in Raymond desert prison inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

The occupation authorities abruptly canceled the visit of the prisoners yesterday, claiming that a Palestinian girl carried out a stabbing attack and slightly injured a female soldier, during her visit to her captive brother, and published a picture of the operation tool and it was “part of scissors” with traces of blood.

At the family home in Balata camp, Al Jazeera Net met Nasreen and her younger brother Ali, and they seemed to be in a state of fear and anticipation for an unknown fate for their family, and she says - flipping over the pictures of her sister Aseel on her own phone - that her mother, brother Mahmoud and their younger sister Aseel were visiting their captive brother in the Israeli Raymond prison yesterday.

And that - Nasreen continues to say - she kept in touch with them even a few minutes before the event, and her brother Mahmoud confirmed that they were waiting in the prison yard, after which contact with her family was cut off.

Minutes later, "I heard from the media that Aseel - and before the date of the visit - stabbed an Israeli female soldier and detained her, my mother and my brother Mahmoud, while the prison authorities isolated my prisoner brother Sabaa and referred him for investigation."

The families of the prisoners during the visit are searched at various checkpoints and points (Al-Jazeera)

An Israeli allegation and fabrication..and these are the evidence

In the categorical denial, Nasreen replied that Aseel had stabbed anyone, and that they were dealing with an "allegation" that came from the occupation only, but at the same time she did not fear the prison authorities' harassment of the prisoners' families during their visits to their children, especially the humiliating searches amid great pressure and provocation, especially towards women.

Nasreen not only ruled out her sister's act, but also rejected it, and said that Aseel was at her home hours before the visit and did not act strange or raise suspicion, but was very happy with her "first" visit to her captive brother, 6 months after his arrest, and she contacted him and asked him what to bring with her His "I took pictures of her with my kids".

More importantly, Nasreen said, "Nothing calls for this behavior. After a week, my captive brother, Sabaa, will be released. She is persistent and ambitious. She will repeat her high school studies for the third time to raise her average to enroll in the university study she wishes."

Even inside Aseel's room on the second floor of the house, the family did not find anything that might confirm the claim of occupation in one way or another.

Above all, Nisreen and her family wondered, with some astonishment, about how their sister was able to pass through several military checkpoints and various inspection stages through which the families of the prisoners pass while carrying a sharp tool with which the stabbing operation was carried out.

Nasreen - who went through the experience of inspection during her previous visits and for many years to her captive brothers - explains that the families of any prisoner pass through a military checkpoint before entering Israel, and are subject to a thorough electronic examination through "electronic gates", and when they arrive at the prison they pass through another checkpoint after placing all Their belongings and personal belongings are set aside in special boxes and checked through an electronic machine.

She adds that the families are then searched with an electronic wand-like tool designed to detect metals, and then the parents enter the manual inspection rooms, and there women are specifically subjected to “violence and provocation” by female soldiers in the manner of their humiliating searches and attempts to intimidate them with naked searches and by bringing prison guardsmen into the manholes. “I was arrested as a daughter 15 years for one night, and I was denied a visit after my refusal to take off my hijab in front of the soldiers and the humiliating way of searching.”

Prisoner Aseel via her sister Nasreen's phone (Al Jazeera)

mother is sick

Regarding the family's situation, Ali says that they are very worried about their mother (56 years), and they expect her "martyrdom" inside prison, as she is not used to imprisonment at all and suffers from chronic diseases such as pressure, disc and spondylitis, while his father today suffered from a clot affected by the horror of the event, so his wife and three children are under arrest.

As for the family’s suffering with the occupation, it is eternal. Aseel’s father and her older and younger brother, Saleh, were imprisoned several times and spent years in prison. Their third brother, Mahmoud, was wounded by Israeli bullets in the thigh, causing him a permanent disability.

The families of the prisoners suffer the most when they visit their families (Al-Jazeera)

collective punishment

With great surprise, he expressed what happened to Ahed Abu Bakr, who was visiting his father, accompanied by the Al-Titi family and the families of other prisoners, and told Al-Jazeera Net, "During the first minutes of the visit, sirens sounded, and the jailers stormed the visiting rooms and informed us that a "stabbing operation" had occurred and that the visit had ended, then they were prevented Continuing the visit and bringing in the prisoners’ supplies, including books, money, and personal items, and holding them inside the prison yard.”

Abu Bakr asked: How does this happen when the captive, like all the families, went through thorough and intense stages of inspection?

He added: I watched from the family of the captive Al-Titi (her mother and brother) who were in a state of tension and great anxiety over Aseel, who was arrested by the soldiers and taken for interrogation, during which "they held us for several hours, and then arrested the captive's mother and brother."

When the families of the prisoners refused to leave the prison before completing the visit, they were suppressed by "special and masked units" and forcibly taken to the buses.

Immediately after the Brimon stabbing, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that the Israeli Prison Service had informed them of the cancellation of the visit program for Monday to all West Bank cities.

The prohibition of visits is the tip of the iceberg of the abuse that the families of the prisoners may be subjected to during the visit, as well as a heavy punishment that may be inflicted on the families of the captive and the captive himself.

The head of the Higher Committee for the Families of Prisoners in Nablus, Muzaffar Thouqan - whom Al Jazeera Net met at the home of the Al-Titi family - says that they have begun, through the competent human rights authorities, to follow up on her case.

He added, "The falsity of the occupation's allegations and the fabrication of accusations of stabbing happen inside and outside prisons, so how does this happen in light of the strict inspection?"

All of this will result in a "collective punishment" for the Al-Titi family and the families of the prisoners in general.

Amid expectations of harsh investigations and a harsh ruling if the accusation is proven, the Prisoner Club's lawyer - according to the club's media and public relations official, Amani Farajneh - was unable to visit the captive Aseel, and therefore they have no information about her or about the investigation with her.

Her captive brother Sabaa was also transferred for interrogation, while the Al-Titi family feared that visits would continue to be banned due to Jewish holidays.