APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 19 December 2021. Supporters of Palestinian Islamic Jihad take part in a protest to show solidarity with female prisoners held in Israeli jails.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 19 December 2021. Supporters of Palestinian Islamic Jihad take part in a protest to show solidarity with female prisoners held in Israeli jails. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) leader in Islamic Jihad, Ahmad al-Mudallal STORYLINE: Israel's central court in Jerusalem sentenced a Palestinian teenage girl to eight-and-a-half years in prison and imposed a fine of 10,000 shekels (approximately $2,595) on her, convicting her of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in occupied East Jerusalem Since 2015. Marah Bakir, was shot and subsequently detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 12, 2015 after carrying out a stabbing attack which injured two Israelis in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where she attended the nearby Abdullah Bin al-Hussein high school. The Palestinian prisoner, Shorouk Doyat, 24, from Sur Baher, in occupied Jerusalem, is entering her sixth consecutive year of detention in the Israeli occupation prisons today, as she is serving a 16-year prison sentence. The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies said: "The occupation arrests in its prisons 37 female Palestinian prisoners, who are kept in harsh detention conditions, and they are deprived of all basic necessities of life, and they are subjected to all forms of violation, restrictions and deprivation of basic rights." The center stated, during a statement that the cases of detention among women have reached about (16,000) cases since 1967, and since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September of 2000, the occupation has arrested more than 2,500 women and girls; 37 prisoners are still languishing in Damoun prison, under harsh and inhuman conditions. Footage by APAwire
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