RAMALLAH, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), A Palestinian woman detained in Israeli jails told lawyer Hasan Abbadi that prison guards have escalated their assaults and violations against women prisoners.
Shahd Muhammad Adi, 23, revealed her testimony regarding the escalation of assaults and violations that Palestinian women prisoners are subjected to inside Israeli occupation prisons.
The prisoner, Adi, who is a nursing graduate from the town of Beit Ummar and detained since last March 25, reported that she has been subjected to harsh mistreatment since the moment of her arrest, as she was forced under threat to take off her jilbab in very cold weather.
She explained in her testimony that the jailers recently stormed the women prisoners’ rooms numbers 6, 7, and 8 while they were performing the Qiyam al-Layl prayer, where they blindfolded them, and forced them to lie down on the ground, before they confiscated their copies of the Quran.
She described the raid of last May 13 as the “most violent”, clarifying that the prison forces used stun grenades and police dogs during it, and carried out physical assaults while voicing verbal insults and brandishing weapons.
She confirmed that releasing police dogs during night raids has become a repeated procedure to force the women prisoners to lie down on the ground and spread terror in their hearts.
She pointed to the continued deterioration of living and health conditions inside the prison, drawing attention to the poor quality of food provided to the women prisoners and its meager quantities, in addition to an acute crisis in clothing, as each prisoner only owns one summer outfit and another winter outfit, with the prison administration refusing to provide them with additional summer clothes.
The prisoner warned of the deterioration of health conditions inside the sections, pointing to the spread of cases of allergies and skin diseases among the women prisoners, as a result of the absence of medical care and cleaning materials, and poor environmental conditions inside the rooms.
