The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) continues to apply oppressive policies against Palestinian detainees. Prohibiting family visits, shutting access to higher education, solitary confinement, strip search, and administrative detention have become the norm for punishing Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. In reaction, Palestinian prisoners have declared an open hunger-strike to protest against these measures which allow many prisoners to be detained for unlimited periods of time without trial.
The case of prisoner Hanaa’ Shalabi who went on hunger strike for 43 days in protest against her administrative detention, sets another model for the resilience of Palestinian women. Shalabi who was released in the last prisoners’ swap between Hamas and Israel, was rearrested from her house in Jenin, and recently deported to Gaza for three years.
In the regard, the Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development denounces the Israeli order to deport Ms. Shalabi to Gaza, and considers deportation a new war crime against Palestinian prisoners. PWWSD calls upon international and local human rights organizations and the Red Cross to reveal the official details of this settlement, and strive to free her, since she is a freed prisoner who has been out only for few months.
The PWWSD denounces to the Israeli policy of deportation, which violates all international agreements and conventions. The PWWSD appreciates and honors all prisoners in Israeli prisons who are fighting against Israeli collective punishment and oppression.
The Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development (PWWSD), an organization committed to the upholding of human rights for women, calls for an immediate end to the administrative detention. It calls for the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the arbitrary detention of Palestinian citizens, and to release those who are being held without substantial evidence.
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