Al-Bireh - a special report by Al-Quds.com - Mrs. Muntaha Al-Taweel "Umm Abdullah", the wife of the captive Hamas leader Jamal Al-Taweel (60 years) from Al-Bireh, hopes that he will be released after the end of his current administrative detention, on the 18th. From the current month, as he spent about a year and a half in his current detention continuously in the Israeli occupation prisons under administrative detention , bringing the total of what he spent in the occupation prisons to about 18 years in various periods of detention.
Hope for release and an end to suffering

On the thirty-first of May 2021, an Israeli special force stormed the house of "Abu Abdullah" and arrested him, after his release in March 2021, after an 8-month administrative detention, and he was transferred to administrative detention three times, each time for 6 months, ending The last one was on the 18th of this month, noting that the occupation forces arrested Al-Taweel after a period of his candidacy for the postponed Legislative Council elections last year, in the "Jerusalem is our date" bloc.

In an interview with Al-Quds.com, his wife, Muntaha Al-Taweel, hopes that the date for her husband's release will be determined in the appeal session that will be held on the seventh of this month, given that the administrative detention is without a declared charge and without a specific date for release.

Constant suffering from detention

"Umm Abdullah" confirms that her family suffered a lot during her husband's eighteen years of detention, especially during the period when he and her children were detained, as they missed their father a lot, and they needed him on many of their social occasions, in which they were denied him standing by their side.

The wife of "Abu Abdullah" and their children believe that what is happening with their father is their fate in the presence of the occupation of Palestine, but they realize that the absence of their father disturbs their lives, and in their social events as well as in social events, and "Umm Abdullah" indicates that she calms her children's anxiety about their father And she does not show her reaction to them by making their lives difficult from detention.

The wife of the long-captain told Al-Quds.com: "The family did not reunite much. The occupation deprived us of many occasions with my husband, and he was only able to attend the wedding of his eldest son Abdullah five years ago, but it seems that they did not like that, so my daughter Bushra was arrested." 17 days after Abdullah's wedding.

The occupation did not leave Jamal Al-Taweel alone, so he was arrested, according to his wife, in 2005 when he ran for the municipal elections of Al-Bireh and won while he was in the occupation prisons, to be the captive mayor. He was released in 2008, then arrested in 2009, after which he remained in the municipal presidency until 2012.

What eases "Umm Abdullah" is that her children notice and listen to people about his history of struggle and good treatment, even his young son Nasrallah, who was 18 months old when his father was arrested in 2002, and when he grew up, he began to hear his father's good biography from people.

But "Umm Abdullah" suffered a lot and was prevented from visiting her husband for 12 years, and her daughter , Bushra Al-Taweel , who is currently imprisoned, was taking her younger brothers to visit their father in prison, because their mother was forbidden to visit.

"Umm Abdullah" recounts the hardships of the occupation to them when her children were deprived of their father for many years, as she says: "My son Nasrallah was in school, and his father got out of prison one time, and he became with him in all matters of his life. It was a difficult situation," when Nasr said God for his mother, I have a father like my friends!

Deprivation of education

The prisoner, Jamal Al-Taweel, was prevented from completing his higher education over the past years, so he insisted on studying despite his old age, and he registered at Birzeit University with a major in international relations eight years ago, and so far he has not completed his studies, and he is in his last semester, but the arrests prevented him from completing his studies, and his wife hopes The university is required to allow her husband to complete the requirements of distance study.

Jamal Al-Taweel studied high school in the Sharia School in Al-Aqsa Mosque, then joined the College of Da’wah and Fundamentals of Religion at Al-Quds University, obtained a bachelor’s degree, worked as an imam and preacher, and moved around in many mosques in Ramallah and Al-Bireh for a period of 27 years.

Bushra's arrest

The prisoner Jamal Al-Taweel, at the beginning of his detention last year, went on an open hunger strike for about a month, in rejection of the occupation’s continued detention of his daughter, journalist Bushra (29 years), for several months. Al-Taweel suspended the strike after defining her administrative detention, then the occupation forces re-arrested her on March 21. March 2022, at the Za'tara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

And Bushra Al-Taweel spent about 4 years in the occupation prisons, her first arrest in which she spent several months, then she was released in the “Wafaa Al-Ahrar” deal in 2011, and she was arrested six times, the last of which was this year, and she was transferred to administrative detention several times, the last of which was for a period of 3 months. The date of her arrest is on the eighteenth of next month.

Umm Abdullah confirms that the arrests of her husband, as well as her detention, are for a period of one year 12 years ago, and the continued detention of her daughter, journalist Bushra, affected the family, but the family is patient and content, as everything is expected from the occupation, according to what she says.