RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Sunday that storming the homes of Palestinian women released from Israeli prisons has become a daily routine Israeli policy in the West Bank.
“The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) pursues deterrence and revenge policy against Palestinian women through arrest, beating and humiliation, and deliberate intimidation as well as vandalizing their homes,” the Detainees Commission added in a statement.
The statement condemned the Israeli violations against Palestinian women, referring to the recent arrest of two freed women, Layan Kayed and Layan Nasser, who are students at Birzeit Universit after Israeli occupation forces had stormed the city of Ramallah and the town of Birzeit to the north.
It also pointed out that the past few days have witnessed a clear escalation in the arrest of Palestinian women because of punitive and retaliatory tendencies, or for taking them as hostages to pressure on their wanted relatives.
The Commission called on local and international feminist organizations to raise their voices for the protection of Palestinian women against targeting, persecution, and arrest.
This brings the total number of women detained in Israeli detention centers to 81, the majority of whom are in the Damon prison where they are languishing under tragic conditions.
