LONDON, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), As the world’s attention is consumed by the beating drums of war and the widening scope of Zionist-American aggression across the region, with tensions flaring from Iran to Lebanon and through the Gulf, the Israeli occupation is attempting to conceal its gravest crimes behind the smoke of battle.
Inside its prisons, which have become what many describe as “graveyards for the living” and human slaughterhouses devoid of the most basic humanitarian standards, Palestinian prisoners are subjected to systematic abuse away from the world’s gaze.
The Red Ribbons Campaign is sounding the alarm and reminding a world that has chosen to turn a deaf ear that behind those walls there are more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 350 children whose childhoods are being stolen, and over 3,000 administrative detainees held without charge or trial.
Women prisoners: Hostages in the grip of terror
Today 66 Palestinian women prisoners are enduring a systematic campaign of psychological and physical destruction. Most of them are held under administrative detention orders that are routinely renewed without charge.
These women are not statistics. Among them are doctors, academics, lawyers and mothers. Three are minors, while others are cancer patients facing a slow death due to deliberate malnutrition and severe medical neglect.
What these women are facing amounts to the abduction of civilian hostages rather than lawful detention. This comes as the Israeli authorities move forward with measures effectively amounting to the execution of prisoners, all amid deafening international silence and a troubling lack of response from both near and distant allies.
Statement from campaign coordinator Adnan Hmidan
Adnan Hmidan, coordinator of the Red Ribbons Campaign, said:
“Let the world hear this clearly: the escalation across the region and the widening aggression will not be used as a cover to forget our imprisoned women or allow the occupation to single them out.
We are not dealing with a prison authority, but with a system that kidnaps hostages and uses them as tools of political and psychological pressure.
The continued detention of our doctors, academics and mothers under the mercy of Israeli jailers, while they face threats of execution and deliberate starvation, is a test of the remaining conscience of our nation.
The dust of missiles across the region will not drown out the cries of cancer patients in prison cells. Our mobilization will not stop until the chains are broken. Freedom is a right that cannot be postponed, no matter how great the challenges.”
Call for Global Action (6–8 March 2026)
The Red Ribbons Campaign announces a series of solidarity events to take place over the weekend from Friday, 6 March, designated as a “Friday of Rage”, through Sunday, 8 March 2026.
The campaign calls on people across the Arab world and supporters of justice globally to take to the streets and raise their voices in protest against the policy of executions and the abuse of captive women prisoners.
Standing with the women prisoners is a stand for the dignity of the nation. To forget them in this moment of escalating crisis would be a betrayal of their steadfastness.
Freedom for the captive women.
Glory and eternal remembrance to the martyrs of the prisoners’ movement.
