Ramallah - Saba:
The Zionist enemy authorities continue to target women through systematic arrests, which have escalated in an unprecedented manner since the start of the genocide, as specialized institutions have documented 525 arrests among women since the start of the genocide, and today the enemy continues to arrest 37 female prisoners, based on the documentation operations until today, including two pregnant prisoners in their fifth month (Rima Balawi from Tulkarm, and Zahraa Al-Kawazbeh from Bethlehem).
The Palestinian Prisoners Club said today, Wednesday, in a statement, that the two prisoners Balawi and Kawazbeh are detained in harsh and difficult conditions in Damon Prison, and like all prisoners, they are subjected to systematic and organized crimes, including the crime of starvation, which cast a shadow on the statements of the two prisoners during their visit in Damon prison recently, in addition to a number of systematic deprivation policies, which affected even their basic needs.
The Prisoner's Club explained that Balawi (31 years), a mother of two daughters, was arrested from her house in Tulkarm, in February 2025, on the background of what the occupation calls (incitement), while Kawazbeh (37 years), a mother of three children, was arrested after the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint. This was at the beginning of April 2025, and the enemy courts extended their detention several times over the past period, and a new court session is supposed to be held for prisoner Balawi on 6/15/2025, while a new court session will be held for prisoner Kawazbeh on 5/18/2025.
The prisoners also suffer doubly by depriving them of their children, as the prison system continues to deprive the families of prisoners since the genocide from visiting them, as the issue of depriving them of their children constitutes a double suffering that has made many of them face difficult psychological conditions.
He stated that the targeting of women for what the enemy claims (incitement) on social media is today the most prominent issue that has escalated in an unprecedented manner since the beginning of the genocide. In addition to women, it has targeted all segments of Palestinian society and has become a central tool to impose more control , censorship and limit freedom of opinion and expression, noting that what the enemy claims (incitement) is a broad concept, through which it has expanded the circle of arrests that have affected thousands since the genocide, and in essence constitutes another form of administrative detention policy, which has affected thousands, including women and children, and has also constituted the most prominent issues that have witnessed a historical transformation since the genocide.
In this context, the Prisoners' Club held the enemy authorities fully responsible for the fate of all female prisoners, including the two prisoners (Balawi and Kawazbeh), and called again on the international human rights system, led by the United Nations, to restore its necessary role in the face of the continuing atrocities and crimes practiced by the Israeli enemy, in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people, and the systematic crimes against prisoners in enemy prisons that constitute another face of genocide and an extension of it.
It is worth mentioning that the number of prisoners in enemy prisons, as of the beginning of May 2025, amounted to more than 10,100, including 3,577 administrative detainees.
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