Israel Occupation deprives 10 families from celebrating the Mothers’ Day
Jerusalem24 – The Prisoners Club Society, a non-governmental association, said in a report today, Sunday, that the Israeli occupation continues to detain ten mothers, out of 31 female prisoners in “Damon” prison.
The captive mothers are Israa Al-Jaabis, Fadwa Hamadeh, Amani Al-Hashim, Khitam Al-Saafin, Shatha Odeh, Ataf Jaradat, Saadia Faragallah, Fatima Alyan, Shurooq Al-Badan, and Yasmine Shaaban.
Some mothers are serving prison sentences for years, including Jaabis, who is sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Fadwa Hamada and Amani al-Hashim, who are serving a ten-year prison sentence.
One of the most prominent policies used by the occupation against mothers is arresting them as a means of putting pressure on their detained sons or a family member, and inflicting the greatest amount of psychological abuse, as happened with the captive Etaf Jaradat recently, the mother of the prisoners (Omar, Ghaith, and Muntasir) Jaradat. The occupation forces arrested her and her children and demolished their home.
Hundreds of prisoners lost their mothers during the years of their captivity without allowing them to say goodbye, as well as the prisoners’ wives face great challenges at different levels, in light of the continuing occupation by arresting their husbands, in addition to the suffering and oppression of mothers and wives whose sons and husbands were martyred in prisons, they lived depriving families and loss later.
