WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s guards in Damon prison have been accused of assaulting several female Palestinian prisoners, threatening them with pepper spray, and putting others in solitary confinement during a brutal crackdown.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, which monitors conditions of Palestinians in the occupying regime’s prisons, said female prisoners had many harsh measurements imposed on them by the regime’s prison service over the past week.
On 14 December, prisoners refused to evacuate Damon prison’s cell 11 when an officer demanded to search it.
This led to officers storming the cells, using force, and seizing electronic equipment from the prisoners, such as a radio and TV.
The Prisoners’ Club said the guards beat prisoners, dragged them on the floor, and have put Shorooq Douyat, Marah Bakir, and Muna Kaadan in solitary confinement.
Bakir acted as the prisoners’ representative and led the refusal to exit the cell. Douyat is serving the longest sentence of all female Palestinian prisoners, having been given 16 years for a stabbing attempt in Jerusalem in 2015.
It is believed around a dozen prisoners were involved in the incident.
According to Addameer, another NGO that supports Palestinian detainees, there are 32 female prisoners held in the regime’s prisons, mainly in Damon, near the city of Haifa.
The violent measures persisted for four days and prisoners reportedly objected by knocking heavily on their cell doors and refusing to take their meals.
The Prisoners’ Club said that some of the women were wounded during the assault and one prisoner became unconscious.
Zionist guards also cut electricity in the cells, threatened the prisoners with pepper spray, and removed the prisoners’ hijabs, pulling their hair.