RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Female prisoner Samira Al-Janazra, 30, who was released Sunday evening from the Israeli Damon prison, stated that her prison mates are suffering from very difficult incarceration conditions, pointing out that the prison is one of the ramshackle old buildings and may collapse at any moment over the heads of the prisoners.
In a statement to the Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners received by the PIC, Janazra added that the Damon prison, which is crammed with 30 Palestinian women, has been a stable for horses and farm animals and used also as a warehouse, but Israel turned these places to prisons, although they are not fit for human life.
The ex-prisoner elaborated that her prison mates are detained in three small tumbledown rooms often wet because of rainwater leaking from the roofs, noting that the prisoners are living in heartbreaking psychological conditions.
She said that the Israeli jailers steal part of the money sent to the prisoners by their families and the prison administration does not provide them with medical care at all except for painkillers.
She also narrated a touching story of a female prisoner in Damon called Manal Ghanem who gave birth to her baby Noor, but after a certain period, the IOA took her child away.
The liberated prisoner appealed to all concerned international organizations to work hard on putting an end to all Israeli violations against Palestinian women in jails.
For more than five minutes the mother held her now 11 year old daughter.
ReplyDeleteYou know,... I broke in tears after I read this. Can you imagine for a second a mother's grief after being separated from her small kids, and jailed?
Every Palestinian has a tragic story to tell. But in a very special manner the Palestinian women, my heroines. Their courage is exceptional.