RAMALLAH: The Detainee and Ex-Detainees Commission said that there are many serious medical cases among female detainees in Damoun Prison in urgent need of treatment and health care in civilian hospitals.
The Commission said in a statement that the detention center holds 78 female detainees, three of whom are from Gaza and a third of the total number are administrative detainees.
It pointed out that the two sick detainees, Zainab Sajdiya, who suffers from cancer, and Rana Eida, are suffering from a difficult health condition, while the two detainees, Nawal Fathia and Dana Khoury, are being held in solitary confinement.
It affirmed that the Commission’s lawyer was able the day before yesterday, to visit the two detainees, Anwar Rustom,33, from the town of Kafr Malek, east of Ramallah, who is still detained, and Hanaa Saleh, 36, from the town of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah, who is detained according to an administrative decision. The lawyer talked to them separately, and they informed her about th
e horrific conditions inside the prison.
The lawyer reported, quoting the two detainees, that the rooms are very crowded, as there are two types of rooms, the large one, in which a minimum of 10 female detainees are held, and the small one, in which a minimum of 5 female detainees are held,
The temperatures inside the rooms are high and there is no ventilation while only one hour is allocated for showering and bathing, and there is an acute shortage of clothes and women’s needs.
The Commission renewed its call to local and international women’s institutions to rescue female detainees and stop the occupation’s prison administration’s monopolization of them.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA