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⭕ Sunday marks the release of 69 Palestinian women & 21 children in a captive exchange deal. Their testimonies reflect the brutality of zionist terrorists.

Part 1/

1. Khalida Jarrar:
"I suffered the horrors of solitary confinement under conditions no human mind can bear." / Khalida Jarrar, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was released in a severely deteriorated health condition, to the point that her appearance had drastically changed. She was was held in the pretense administrative detention since  December 2023 without trial and charge.
Khalida continued,

"The conditions of detention were not only difficult but excruciating. Like other captives, I endured brutal treatment. We were subjected to daily torture, oppression, and abuse, and deprived of everything. But this is the cost of the freedom we yearn for."
2. Abla Saadat

"I spent 4 months in prison under administrative detention without trial and charge."

The conditions of prisons as "entirely inhumane. They treated us as if we were animals."

"They try to break our morale, to make us feel beneath them." Image
3. Journalist Rula Hassanein

"My pain in prison was doubled, as a result of the poor living conditions due to starvation, medical neglect, and torture, as well as the constant feeling of pain and bitterness for my daughter, Elia, who needed me to breastfeed and care for her." Image
Rula added ;

"There were countless violations. We couldn’t clip our nails, so we had to use our teeth. They stopped us from combing our hair, so we had to use plastic forks. They took our belongings clothes, and veils."
4. Dalal al-Arouri:

"We went through a difficult situation throughout captivity, with beatings, threats, shackling, intimidation, and more, up until the final moments of our release."

"The torture against me was because I am Al-Arouri's sister." Dalal and Fatima al-Arouri, sisters of the martyred Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, who was assassinated by zionist terrorists in Lebanon a year ago, were finally freed in the captive exchange deal, together with Fatima's daughter, Alaa Saqr al-Arouri. None of them were charged or put on trial.
5. Hadeel Shatara:

"We were subjected to abuse and beatings until we reached the Red Cross buses. In prison, there is a complete system of oppression, torture, and deprivation of rights that would not occur to any sane person." Hadeel Shatara (33), an educator at Birzeit University, was abducted by zionist thugs in July 2024 as she returned to Palestine from Jordan at the Karameh crossing. She was neither trialed nor charged.
6. Dunia Shtayeh

"Conditions in the cells at the Hasharon were inhumane. I wouldn’t even call them cells—they’re more like graves. Small, tight, and literally unfit for a human to live in." Dunya Shtayeh, a third-year Sharia law student at An-Najah University in Nablus, was brutally abducted by occupation forces on July 24, 2024, after they raided her family's home in the village of Salem, near Nablus. She was imprisoned without trial on the baseless charge of incitement, a tactic used by the zionist terrorists to silence those who oppose it.
7. The cub Adam Al-Hadra. (18 years old)

"I was wounded while participating in a march in Al-Quds against the war and aggression on Gaza last year before I was abducted. I was deprived of appropriate treatment, and my condition worsened." Adam Al-Hadra, a young Jerusalemite from At-Tur, was abducted and imprisoned since 2023. The court issued a 3-year prison sentence against him before he was released in captive exchange deal.
"I suffered from severe cold and extreme heat due to the ziomists measures taken against me. I endured beatings, hunger, and pain that I could not bear."
8. Latifa Msha'sha:

"We were left on the cold ground for nearly two hours, surrounded by dogs. It felt unbearable. They humiliated us, speaking in a degrading manner. We didn’t know where they would take us or what would happen next." Latifa Mshasha, 34, from Kafr Aqab, was abducted in November of last year. Like most released captives, she was never put on trial or charged.
9. Ahmed Khashan (18 years old)

"Scabies affected all the captives, some even contemplated suicide, but they stayed steadfast." He added, "I feel happy but also sad for those I left behind—those who are older and have spent years in prison. May God grant them relief & support." Ahmed is one of the captives who were re-abducted after being released during the first captive exchange in November 2023. His brother Wissam Khashan was martyred on the same day he was abducted at the beginning of last year.
10. Sick child captive Rose Khweis (17 years old)

"I went through a harsh illness experience after which I was transferred to the hospital and remained tied to a hospital bed
. - I was transferred from one section to another in the hospital harshly, which caused severe pain." Rose Khweis, 17, was the youngest Palestinian female captive. Abducted in May 2024 from the Old City of East Al-Quds, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.   This 17-year-old from Al-Quds is suffering from a heart attack, fluid accumulation in her lungs, and constant exhaustion, which severely hinder her daily activities.   Despite her critical condition, zionist prison administration have consistently refused to address her medical needs, exacerbating her situation.
Khweis mentioned that when she told a zionist officer she was in severe pain, he immediately replied, "I will break your mouth." When she said she'd report the incident to the court and needed treatment, the officer told his colleague to "push her with a stick."
11. Hanan Hilal Maalwani (23 years old)

"Prison is literally the hardest thing in life."

"They made us suffer a lot in every way… searches, repression, beatings, dragging, they handcuffed us, everything was difficult, but thanks be to God, Lord of the Worlds." Hanan Hilal Maalwani, just 23 and from Nablus, was finally freed in a prisoner exchange deal after enduring 5 months of unjust detention in the infamous Al-Damon prison. Without trial, she was accused of incitement via social media, a charge used to silence her voice.
12. Wounded captive Aseel Shuhada (19 years old)

"They humiliated us until the moments we were released. Look at my hands, marked by the traces of the handcuffs. They made us bow our heads to the ground, degrading us in the most brutal way." Aseel Shuhada, 19, from Ramallah, was brutally abducted on November 7, 2023, at the Qalandiya checkpoint. After being shot, left injured, and dragged away, she has remained in captivity. A year later, the oppressive occupiers continue to deliberately extend her trial, and until the day of her release, she has not faced trial or charge.

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“In prison, I meet a tall young man with a beard.
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