cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49112917
A prisoner advocacy group has called for urgent international intervention to secure the release of three pregnant Palestinian women held under harsh conditions at the Israeli regime’s Damon Prison.
In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society held Israeli authorities fully responsible for the fate of Amina al-Taweel, Dana Jouda, and Manar Ibrahim.
“The women are being held under severe conditions and in unprecedented isolation. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been barred from visiting prisoners since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza,” the statement said.
It added that their families are also denied visits, like all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.
Amina al-Taweel, 37, from Qalqilya, is four months pregnant. She is a mother of four and the wife of a former prisoner who spent a total of 19 years in Israeli prisons. She was arrested on March 18, 2026.
Dana Jouda, 35, from Nablus, is five months pregnant and a mother of one. She has been held since April 18, 2026, under arbitrary administrative detention for six months. Manar Ibrahim, 28, from Ramallah, is four months pregnant and a mother of two. She was detained on April 30, 2026, on charges of “incitement” on social media.
The three women are among 93 Palestinian women currently held in Israeli prisons, most of them at Damon Prison in the northern occupied territories.
Testimonies collected through legal visits and from released detainees indicate that female prisoners have faced intensified punitive measures, including repeated raids, invasive searches, and other forms of mistreatment. Pregnant detainees, in particular, suffer from inadequate healthcare, food shortages, and severe psychological pressure, despite their specific medical needs.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society stated that holding pregnant women under such conditions violates international humanitarian law and human rights standards, including protections for pregnant women under the Fourth Geneva Convention.