- NABLUS (IslamOnline.net)
-- Israeli occupation forces have adopted a new tactic in detaining what
they call " Palestinian suspects", based on detaining their wives
to get them to surrender in return for releasing their women, IslamOnline.net
was told by Palestinian wives.
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- Tamam Abdel Wahid, wife of Anad Salah El-Refae, who is
one of those wanted by the occupation forces, told IOL her detention story
when Israeli soldiers broke into her house and arrested her on October
25.
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- ìMy 7-month-old baby kept crying but his tears
failed to move any feelings inside the soldier who grabbed and threw him
on the bed. Then, the Israeli soldiers arrested me,î she IslamOnline.net
Monday, November 3.
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- She added that she had nothing to do but to comply with
instructions and accompany the soldiers to their military jeep, after blindfolding
her and leaving her baby with her boy and two girls.
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- Tamam's tragedy was not a first or a last among Palestinian
wives of Palestinian resistance fighters, as internal Israeli intelligence
adopted such a policy against the wives of senior leaders of Islamic Resistance
movements in the West Bank.
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- Occupation forces arrested the wife of Sheikh Gamal Abu
El-Heiga, a Hamas leader, in the northern West Bank to force him to surrender.
A surgery for removing a brain tumor was due to be carried out on her before
detention.
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- Even after arresting her handicapped husband, occupation
intelligence did not release her but she remained in a prison for Palestinian
women so far.
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- Another Victim
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- The family of Amgad Ebeidy, 25, who comes on top of the
list of the wanted and who is accused of being the head of Al-Quds Brigades,
military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was also a victim of this
tactic, as his wife kamilia was arrested after destroying their home on
October 27.
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- ìA large force came to us in the middle of the
night and forced us to get out of our house and told us they would destroy
it,î Ebeidyís mother told IslamOnline.net.
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- ìThey refused to let us take anything with us.
We begged them to allow us to take out the furniture and they paid no attention,î
she maintained, adding that the occupation soldiers brought down the two-storey
building that housed 12 persons.
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- ìSince I was arrested, they insulted me and threatened
to leave me in detention for a long time and to be exposed to horrible
torture,î Kamilia, released by the Israeli forces after a day in
prison, said.
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- ìThe soldiers gathered around me and asked me
about Amgad and I said that I donít know his whereabouts but they
accused me of being a liar and an accomplice and threatened me of life
imprisonment,î Kamilia said.
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- "Officers started to practice psychological pressures
on me and asked me to persuade my husband to surrender," she added.
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- "If they think that such measures will humiliate
our people, they are mistaken. Yet, where are human right defenders? Where
is the Arab conscience? Where is the justice they demand day and night?"
she wondered.
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- It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of POW and the
Released Affairs has declared in August 2003 that the occupation authorities
were still detaining 73 Palestinian women, including 11 girls.
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