MEMO 8 Mar -- Israel has detained more than 15,000 Palestinian women
since 1967, the Palestinian Minister of Women's Affairs said on
Thursday. On the eve of International Women's Day, Jamila Al-Shanti
condemned the international silence over Israel's systematic abuse of
Palestinian women. "Nobody who claims to be fighting for women's rights
has ever taken any action on this issue," she said. "The Israeli
occupation authorities practice physical and psychological torture
against Palestinian female prisoners," the Minister said in a press
statement. "They lock them up with Israeli criminals who always attack
and injure them." The Minister's statement included details of the
Palestinian woman who was forced to give birth while she was handcuffed
in an Israeli prison clinic.
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