RAMALLAH (PIC)– The IOF troops have kidnapped approximately 600 Palestinian women since the outbreak of the Aqsa Intifada at the end of September 2000; of whom 128 are still under detention conditions an official PA study revealed.
The 128 female captives “include 62 sentenced 63 detained and 3 serving different administrative detention periods without charge or trial” a study prepared by the ministry of detainees and ex-prisoners affairs said.
Twelve of those prisoners are minors less than 18 years old; eleven believed to be detained pending trial and one sentenced. Seven of them are in Ramallah prison and five in the Talmond prison the study mentioned and pointed out that some women had given birth while in captivity.
The study also charged that the women were subjected to various kinds of torture during arrest or detention. Numerous testimonies of female prisoners indicate that they had been beaten psychologically pressured and threatened with rape the report said.
There are six female prisoners isolated in solitary confinement in the Jalama prison and are suffering from skin diseases the report said adding that one captive called Amna Mona is experiencing a state of psychological instability as a result of her isolation for nine months in the Ramla prison according to the study.
It noted that the prisoners had organized many protest struggles and open hunger strikes since the beginning of their detention in order to improve their cruel conditions and to confront the policies of repression and oppression they were and still are exposed to.
The Palestinian women in Israeli jails are deprived of suitable medication despite their deteriorating health cases that originated from the brutal interrogation rounds and tragic detention the report concluded.
