Minor Palestinian girl in harsh detention conditions

Family of 15-year-old girl Istabraq Ahmad Nour on Monday raised alarm bells over the harsh detention circumstances endured by their injured daughter in Israeli jails.

Speaking in a statement to the PIC, Istabraq’s father said he was able to visit his daughter in the HaSharon jail for the first time since she was attested on October 21.

Her mother, however, was banned from visiting her under the security pretext.

The father quoted his daughter as launching a cry for help over the non-humanitarian detention conditions and medical negligence perpetrated by the Israeli prison authorities despite the excruciating pains she has been enduring as a result of an Israeli-inflicted hand injury.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested Istabraq on allegations that she came within the reach of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, in the occupied Nablus.

She had been subjected to harsh torture and investigation shortly after the arrest.

The father appealed to the human rights institutions to urgently step in and save his daughter before it is too late.

He further said that the prison cells lack the basic humanitarian needs, adding that his daughter, along with other female detainees, have been struggling with cockroaches and suffering poor hygienic conditions inside a prison section to which they have been recently transferred.

He further called on the Red Cross and concerned human rights bodies to make a field visit to Israeli jails and keep tabs on the detainees’ tragic situation.