PALESTINE
Sat 26 Aug 2023 8:54 am - Jerusalem Time
The ordeal of a mother in Jenin Refugee Camp
With indignation, anger, and oppression, the mother, Ibtisam al-Kastouni, cried, "God is the greatest. One is a martyr, the second is through investigation and torture, and the third is in administrative detention. Who stayed with me.. Oh, Lord, have mercy." When she received the news that her son, Hani, had been transferred to administrative detention, while she receives mourners for the martyrdom of her son, Mustafa, who was executed by the occupation forces at the same time that Hani was arrested in the city center of Jenin on the seventeenth of this month.
In the middle of the funeral home for the martyr in Jenin, Umm Ali sat crying and said, "They left no one for me. They took all my life, my soul, and my children.. May God take revenge on them. How do I want to live my life alone.. Hani was not wanted. They arrested him once a while ago, and his rule ended, and he returned to us." I was so happy and relieved for my reunion with my children.”
She added, "On the day of his arrest, he was near our house at the gate of the Old City in the center of Jenin, when suddenly the special units that stormed the area surrounded him with Palestinian civilian cars, and they directed their bullets at him and threatened to kill him if he moved, and they pounced on him like monsters and arrested him, and beat Hani and his friend who was with him." My son Mustafa witnessed the crime and the torture of his brother from the window of our house overlooking the street, so he clashed with the special units and shot them, and within minutes, military reinforcements stormed the city, surrounded our house and the old town, then stormed him amid heavy gunfire and executed him.
During the operation, the occupation forces completely destroyed the house of the al-Kastouni family and left them homeless, and his mother says, "It was not enough for the soldiers to execute my son. They threw a bomb without taking into account my presence with my daughter-in-law and four grandchildren, and demolished the house and turned it into ruins. I became homeless and lost my children, home, and life."
And she added, "My third son has been detained for some time and is still in the cellars of the investigation, and so I said goodbye to Mustafa in the absence of his three brothers, and I remained on my nerves waiting to know the fate of Hani."
Since his arrest, and despite the tragedy, Umm Ali has been communicating with the prisoners’ rights institutions to follow up on Han’s file, and her shock was great with the administrative detention decision, and she said, “This is unparalleled injustice, punishment, and revenge. There is no one in the world who needs children around him like me, but the occupation destroyed my life, one in the grave, the second is in the investigation slaughterhouse, and the third is being burnt by the fires of administrative detention in the Negev, so what injustice is greater than this?, And which legality and law permit these crimes? I demand the world to release my children and lift the injustice against me.. Isn't it enough to demolish my house and execute my son?
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The ordeal of a mother in Jenin Refugee Camp