Number of female Palestinian detainees in Israel prisons is 86, says PPS and Commission


RAMALLAH: The Palestine Prisoners Society (PPS) and Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission said that the Israeli occupation authorities are still detaining 86 female prisoners, all of them in the Israeli prison of al-Damon and only two female prisoners in al-Maskoubiya interrogation center.

The Commission’s lawyer meet with the two female detainees, Hadeel Shatara, 32, from the town of Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah city, who has been detained for two months and has been placed under administrative detention for six months, and Salwa Hamdan, 45, from Al-Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem city, who has been detained for four months.

The Commission pointed out that the conditions of female detainees inside occupation jails are worsening.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA