At least 94 Palestinian women held in Israeli prisons: Groups
Most are in Damon Prison in northern Israel, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, including a woman and her daughter who are from Gaza.
The number, the organisations said, is likely an underestimate because Israeli authorities are holding many women in various detention camps and have not given any information about them.
“Women are being subject to torture, starvation, and medical crimes. Some are being placed in isolated cells and subject to strip searches,” the organisations said.“Twenty-three women are being held under administrative detention without charge or trial, while most of the rest are detained for alleged ‘incitement’, including students, lawyers, journalists, activists and mothers.”
“Twenty-three women are being held under administrative detention without charge or trial, while most of the rest are detained for alleged ‘incitement’, including students, lawyers, journalists, activists and mothers.”
‘Palestinians have right to resist oppression’: UN special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese says because Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful, “it constitutes an aggression against the right of self-determination”.
“The Palestinians – like it or not – have the right to resist the oppression,” she said.
The UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territory was speaking remotely at a news conference for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The caveat, she said, is that this resistance has to be done “within the realm and the limits of international law; therefore, civilians cannot be targeted, killed or taken hostage”.
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The UN rapporteur says the international community has failed to prevent Israel’s genocide in Gaza and now Israel is threatening to repeat its actions in the occupied West Bank.
“We have failed to honour one of the major obligations imposed on member states by the Genocide Convention, which is to prevent genocide and to punish [it],” she said.
“I see the risk of failing, once again, in the West Bank because the attacks Israel has unleashed [are] not just against Palestinians in Gaza. It is against the Palestinians as a whole. There is a need to … protect the Palestinians from what might be in some weeks or months from now another form of genocide unfolding.”
