Due to injuries received during her detention, a female Palestinian prisoner had both of her feet amputated during medical surgery. Despite her difficult medical condition, she was placed in administrative detention for four months.
“The prisoner Wafaa Jarrar, from Jenin, underwent surgery in which her feet were amputated below the knee,” attorney Khaled Mahajna said in press statements.
“We visited the prisoner in the intensive care unit under anesthesia in the Israeli Afula Hospital under tight military protection.”
Mahajna indicated that an administrative detention order had been issued against the prisoner despite her difficult health condition.
Administrative detention is the detention of an individual without charge or trial that is authorized by Israeli intelligence in consultation with the Israeli occupation army’s commander of the “Central Region” (West Bank) for periods ranging between one month to six months. The authorization is predicated on “secret security information,” about which neither the accused individual nor his legal representative are aware.
Jarrar is the wife of prisoner Abdul Jabbar Jarrar, 58, who has been placed in administrative detention since February 2024. This is the first time she has been placed in administrative detention, despite having four children.
26 female Palestinian prisoners are held in administrative detention, out of at least 80 female prisoners held in Israeli jails. As of May 2024, 9,300, Palestinian prisoners are detained in Israeli jails, including more than 3,400 administrative detainees.
Alongside the Gaza War, the Israeli forces increased their almost-daily raids and arrests into the West Bank, resulting in 519 Palestinian deaths, approximately 5,000 injuries, and 8,890 arrests.
