APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 22 March 2021. Palestinians take part in a protest to show solidarity with prisoners and the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Israeli Jails, in front of the headquarters of Red cross in Gaza city.
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Member of the Prisoners Committee of the National and Islamic Forces, Mohammad Jarada
02.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Palestinian Leader National Initiative party, Nabil Diab
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With this latest case, the number of Palestinian prisoner and detainees in Israeli detention who have contracted COVID-19 since the first outbreak of the pandemic last year rose to 368.
Palestinian women prisoners are the mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, of Palestinian male prisoners. They make homes for themselves and their children, denied access to their husbands and fathers.
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