According to the Prisoners ´and Editors´ Affairs Authority, more than 17,000 Palestinians (between an elderly and a minor) have been detained in Israeli jails since 1967.
"The period of the first Palestinian Intifada (uprising of stones), which began in 1987, witnessed the largest arrests of Palestinian women," the official human rights body said in a report on Thursday. She pointed out that the number of arrests of women during the first intifada reached about 3,000 Palestinians. She explained that during the second Palestinian intifada (Al-Aqsa Intifada), which broke out in 2000, the number of arrests against Palestinian women reached about 1000. She pointed out that "from 2009 until the beginning of 2012, the severity of arrests among Palestinian women, to return to the escalation with the launch of the Palestinian mass donation at the end of 2015." Abizaid and continued: `` continued in 2018, the detention of women, which witnessed a rise in the pace of detention, especially stationed in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, to continue during the year 2019. ´ As of the date of this report, the number of female prisoners in Israeli jails reached 36, according to the report of the Prisoners and Editors´ Affairs Authority. She drew attention to the fact that all the women prisoners currently languish in prison "Damon" humanitarian conditions and detention difficult and disturbing, including 20 prisoners or mother, and 6 wounded with bullets during the arrests. The body continued: "Half of the total number of women prisoners were sentenced to varying sentences up to 16 years, and the other half is still under arrest." She added that the detainees suffer from the policy of deliberate medical negligence for both cases of patients or injured by bullets, and the prisoners have complained for many years of the lack of a female doctor in the prison clinic, and the lack of appropriate medicines for patients. The prisoner, "Israa Aljabais" of the most difficult cases among the prisoners, which need urgent surgery after suffering severe burns during arrest and amputated eight of her fingers, and the procrastination of the occupation in the necessary operations. The prisoners suffer from transport to the “crossing” of Hasharon Prison, some of them are denied visits, there is no cooking room in the prison, and they are restricted by bathing time and hours, and from the surveillance cameras permanently installed in al-Foura Square.
