Today, Monday, the Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners published details of the painful arrest of prisoner Fatima Amarneh, after the Commission’s lawyer, Hanan Al-Khatib, visited her in Damoun Prison.

The Commission said, “On September 4, 2023, at approximately nine o’clock in the evening, Fatima Amarneh (41 years old) from the city of Jenin was leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque, and she was surprised when one of the occupation soldiers kicked her with his leg, claiming that she had tried to stab him, and then several of the soldiers attacked her.” They beat her severely until she lost consciousness, and she then found herself handcuffed inside a military jeep and surrounded by female soldiers.”

It added: "The prisoner was then transferred to the (Al-Qashla) investigation center, and the investigating officer continued the series of torture, where he beat her and tried to intimidate her and violate her privacy because she was a veiled girl, while the female soldiers then strip-searched her several times."

The Commission continued: “Then they put me in a bosom and beat it hard. Sometimes they walked quickly and then stopped suddenly. They moved me from one place to another and wrapped me around a lot with the aim of pressuring and disturbing me. The female soldiers tightly tied the handcuffs on my hands with the aim of hurting me, and some of them were pushing me, kicking me and hitting me. They tore my robe for me.” Then they transferred me to Ramla prison. I slept in Ramla without eating. They put me in a solitary confinement cell alone.

The conditions of the cell were difficult and harsh. A bed with a thin leather mattress, no pillow, a dirty blanket and a stinky smell. A toilet consisting of a hole in the floor that was disgusting and smelled bad. Then I was transferred to Damoon. There are still traces of bruises on my body from the severity of the beating I received at the time of arrest, and some of my clothes have traces of blood on them. I lost more than 2 kilos in 3 days... What happened to me was an unexpected nightmare.”