Mother of three Palestinian prisoners appeals for allowing her visitation

[ 18/08/2009 - 04:42 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The mother of three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation authority (IOA) jails has appealed to human rights groups and the Red Cross to pressure the IOA into allowing her to visit her sons. The Wa'ed society for prisoners said that the mother did not see her three sons ever since their detention on 1st of January 2008 after a unit of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) besieged their home to arrest their father but when the IOF troops found out he was not at home they took instead his three sons. She added that their father died in the latest IOF war on Gaza "and now I am without a breadwinner or a shelter after the IOA blew up our home when they arrested my sons". The mother said that the eldest Mohammed is 24 years old and is married, the second Muntaser, 22, is a university student and the third Muhanad, 20, is a freshman. The society noted that around 1,000 prisoners in IOA jails are deprived of family visits for the past three years in violation of all international norms and doctrines. Meanwhile, the Palestinian minister of prisoners' affairs, Mohammed Al-Ghoul, said in a statement to the PIC that factions capturing IOF corporal Gilad Shalit should stick to their demands. He reviewed the tragic incarceration conditions of Palestinian women, children and the sick, asking the world community to support them and demand their freedom.