The occupation continues to escalate the arrest of women

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to escalate the targeting of women through systematic arrest operations.

The Prisoners' Club added - in a statement today, reported by the Palestinian News Agency "Wafa" - that the total number of female prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons rose during the month of July to 83 female prisoners, after the occupation arrested five women during this week, including two sisters from Nablus.

He explained that this data includes only female prisoners whose identities are known to the institutions, and the majority of them are detained in “Damoun” prison, including three female prisoners from Gaza, including a mother and her daughter, Siham Abu Salem and Susan Abu Salem. However, it does not include all female detainees from Gaza and those detained in camps run by the army. The occupation, and there are no details about their numbers in light of the continuing crime of forced disappearance of large numbers of Gaza detainees.

He continued that among the female prisoners are: female journalists, lawyers, jurists, university students, academics, teachers, mothers of prisoners, wives of prisoners, sisters of martyrs and wounded, former female prisoners and wounded, in addition to a prisoner who is in her fifth month of pregnancy, the prisoner Jihad Dar Nakhleh from the Jalazoun camp. While the number of female prisoners who were mothers reached 29.

The Prisoners' Club pointed out that the number of female prisoners administratively detained has risen to 22, noting that the majority of female prisoners are detained either under administrative detention, or detained against the backdrop of what the occupation claims as "incitement," which constitutes another facet of the crime of administrative detention, noting that the occupation authorities recently released On the authority of the prisoner Aisha Ghaidan from Ramallah, who was pregnant, the occupation brought charges against her based on what it claims as “incitement” and imposed conditions on her in exchange for her release, including: financial bail, depriving her of using social media sites, and the obligation to attend court sessions approved for her.

He stated that the number of arrests among women since the start of the genocide war has reached more than 330, and this figure includes women who were arrested in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, as well as women from the 1948 territories, while there is no clear estimate of the number of arrests among women. They were arrested from Gaza.