Al Taweel Palestinian family celebrates the freedom of its daughter after 14 months imprisonment spent in the occupation’s custody in resemblance to uncountable detained Palestinians.
The 21 years old freedwoman who is pursuing her education at Birzeit University’s College of Technology has been arrested in the wake of her political activism on campus.
The story began on November 2nd of last year when tens of armed forces of the occupation broke into her house, dragging her to undergo investigation in Aufar’s military camp near Ramallah. Shatha was moved then to Sharon’s prison for 14 days and afterward spent the rest of her sentence in Damoun’s prison in occupied Palestine.
For more than seven consecutive months, Shatha didn’t have the chance to meet her family due to the severe lockdown measures enforced during the pandemic. During her imprisonment, the Al Taweel family strived to resort to every tactic to comfort themselves, either by sending their regards with the lawyers to the detained daughter prison, or communicating with her via the prisoner’s radio show, yet they weren’t able to adapt to her absence.
Nonetheless, even when unprecedented escalations and new policies were taken by the occupation, Shatha managed to be freed. But, what happened at Jalbou prison specifically?
From severe punitive measures including locking up the cell for three consecutive days to ban detained Palestinians from going to the bathroom, to threats of isolation and perpetual transfers between cells and sections within the same prison, six Palestinian heroes have severely shaken the occupation by this act.
Going back to Shatha, she has witnessed all these brutal measures when being enforced.
The occupation’s main purpose is geared towards scattering unconditional fear among prisoners, abolishing any ties they may have within each other and the outer community, and dwindling any glimpses of hope. Yet eventually, Shatha, like many other Palestinian prisoners, proved this brutal system wrong the moment she was freed, acknowledging that the battle hasn’t been ended yet as an action should continue to be taken to free the 30 prisoners left behind in the prison.