On the #InternationalWomensDay,
Palestinian female captives send a message from inside the Damon prisons.
“From inside Damon prisons, we send you a greeting; a greeting of freedom to every woman in the world in general and every woman in Palestine in particular.”
“We are 29 female prisoners, and each one of us has a story, a steadfast woman who went through the experience of detention, suffering and ugliness, and paid the price for her love for her land and her right to defend her homeland, to spend the years of her life in prisons,”
“We miss our families, we miss our freedom and everything of our lives, and we dream and wish to wake up in the arms of our mothers, but fate wanted us to wake up to the reality of our prisons cells surrounded by high walls that were built by hateful hands.”
“We say to you Happy Women's Day, every year, our beloved homeland is fine, and our people who are steadfast in the face of tyranny are fine.”
⭕ Khaled Awawdeh suffers from serious health complications as an outcome of his prolonged hunger strike which led to nerve damage & the inability to walk.
“The biggest fear is that Khalil will lose the ability to walk and he might need to adapt to a life in a wheelchair,”
Khalil Awawdeh went on a hunger strike, which began last March and lasted for 172 days, against the policy of unlawful administrative detention.
After an initial 111 days, he suspended his hunger strike based on promises of his release, but the occupation broke its promise –
and issued a new administrative detention order for 4 months against him, which prompted him to resume his strike in July 2022.
Khalil spent a total of 12 years in the occupation prisons, including 6 years in administrative detention.
“Had it not been for the policy of medical negligence & what I was subjected to, I would not have become without legs.
I waited for many promises to treat me, & I lost my limbs while waiting. Today I live on painkillers& I can no longer sleep. We are all in line for martyrdom.”
The captive with half a body; Nahed Al-Aqraa
He was arrested with one of his feet amputated and after being thrown into the occupation prisons and subjected to medical neglect, which led to amputation of his other leg.
He is permanently confined to the Ramleh Prison.
Nahed Al-Aqra’, 54, from Gaza.
He was arrested for the first time in 1983 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He served 10 years of his sentence & was released under the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Then he was arrested for the 2nd time in 2007 & sentenced to life imprisonment.
• Suffers from cancer, and the cancer cells have spread to several parts of his body. In addition to the colon, the cancer cells have reached intestines, glands and liver.
• His condition is rapidly worsening,
Captive Kamal Hani Jouri
• He suffers severe injury after he was shot during his arrest, causing damage to the nerves in his pelvic area.
• Doctors were unable to remove the bullet from its place, because removing it may lead to permanent paralysis.
8 months before her martyrdom,She was on her way to visit her daughter. She was attacked by a settler which prompted her to hit him.
A group of settlers, escorted by occupation soldiers, rushed to attack 68-year-old Saadia accusing her planned to carry out a stabbing operation twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Saadia Matar was born on (2-10-1958) a mother of 8 from Idna town in Hebron was the oldest Palestinian female detainee.
She was first arrested during the First Intifada of 1987 and was held in administrative detention without charge or trial in 2017 for three months.
The occupation decided to arrest her, and put her in solitary confinement for 2 months.
While she was in prison, Matar’s health deteriorated rapidly. She submitted several requests to see a doctor, but it was denied.
While visiting her detained brother in Ramon prison, she was subjected to provocations & humiliating searches.
She fought back in defend of herself.
The prison administration immediately arrested her claiming she carried out a stabbing attack.
The case of Prisoner Aseel Al-Taiti
On 2nd Oct 2022, along with her mother&her brother, Mahmoud, she visited her detained brother,Prisoner Sabaa.
During the inspection, the warden removed her scarf by force and Aseel pushed her in response.
The prison administration arrested her along with her mother & brother.
They were transferred to investigations center in the Al-Maskubiya and Petah Tikva, then the mother and brother were released on a bail while Aseel's detention continues.
She was brought to the court more than once, to issue an indictment of planning and executing an appeal.
Zakaria was born in 1976. At 13, he was shot by the occupation soldiers for throwing stones. At 14, he was arrested for the first time.
His mother and his brother, Taha, were killed by the occupation during battle of Jenin 2002.
On 15 May 2022, his brother Daoud, the leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, succumbed to his wounds after being shot and arrested by the occupation forces during an armed clash in the Jenin camp. The occupation authorities also kidnapped his body.
“My mother was a great woman. She was fifty-one years old when she was martyred. She spent her life going from one prison to another to visit her kids. My father was also a resistance fighter, as were all my brothers. My mother was a woman who was loved by everyone.”