The Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority said that there are many serious medical cases among female detainees in Damoun Prison, in need of treatment and health care in civilian hospitals.

The authority added in a statement today, Tuesday, that the detention center holds 78 female detainees, three of whom are from Gaza (Siham Abu Salem, her daughter Suzanne Abu Salem, and Asma Shatat), and a third of the total number are administrative detainees.

She pointed out that the two sick detainees, Zainab Sajdiya, who suffers from cancer, and Rana Eida, are suffering from a difficult health condition, while the two detainees, Nawal Fathia and Dana Khoury, are being held in solitary confinement cells.

She pointed out that the Commission’s lawyer was able the day before yesterday, Sunday, to visit the two detainees, Anwar Rustom (33 years old) from the town of Kafr Malek, east of Ramallah, who is still detained, and Hanaa Saleh (36 years old), from the town of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah, who is detained according to an administrative decision. She spoke to them separately, and they informed her about the situation in the prison and the female prisoners.

The lawyer reported, quoting the two detainees, that the rooms are very crowded, as there are two types of rooms, the large one, in which a minimum of 10 female detainees are held, and the small one, in which a minimum of 5 female detainees are held, but the areas of the rooms are very small compared to the number of detainees, and the temperatures inside them. It is high and there is no ventilation, which makes life inside suffering and torment, while only one hour is allocated for showering and bathing, and every two rooms are taken out together, food is still poor in quantity and quality, and there is an acute shortage of clothes, things, and women’s needs.

The Commission renewed its demands to local and international women’s institutions and unions to rescue female detainees and stop the occupation’s prison administration’s monopolization of them.