The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) issued since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada ten administrative detention orders against Palestinian female prisoners a rights group revealed Friday.
Spokesman for Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies Riyad al-Ashqar affirmed that ten female prisoners were placed under administrative detention since the beginning of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015 eight of them were earlier released.
However two female prisoners identified as Sabah Faroun and Ihsan Dababssa are still held in administrative detention without charge or trial he pointed out.
Sabah a mother of four children was arrested in June 2016 after Israeli police violently broke into her family home in occupied Jerusalem for Facebook incitement.
She was first placed under administrative detention for four months. Her detention was then renewed twice for four months each time.
Ihsan from al-Khalil was arrested in February 2017 from her family home and taken to Etzion investigation center. She was then placed under administrative detention for six months.
Ihsan had earlier spent four years behind Israeli bars in two separate arrests in 2007 and 2014 for being allegedly affiliated to Jihad Movement.
56 Palestinian female prisoners are currently held in HaSharon and Damon prisons suffering harsh treatment and bad incarceration conditions including denying them access to the most basic rights including heating winter clothing medical treatment and family visits.
Israel detained 15000 Palestinian women since its occupation of the West Bank East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in 1967.
