HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch 

By Abeer S. Abusaud* from Amman, March 20 – Most countries celebrated UN Women’s day on March 8, and many Arab countries are expected to celebrate the Mother’s Day on March 21 with flowers and gifts. This is not the case, however, for Palestinian women; nor it is for Palestinian mothers who loose a child everyday under Gaza siege or raids, and more discreetly under Israeli detention.

**Demonstrating for Hana

Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalaby –who has been on a hunger strike for 34 days now– was admitted on March 20 to hospital following a dramatic deterioration in her health.

Hana Shalaby (30 years), started her strike in protest against being re-arrested by the Israeli occupying forces following her release in October last year after spending more than two years in administrative detention.

She was re-arrested on 16 February 2012 and was issued a six-month administrative detention order on 23 February, but has not been charged. An Israeli Army spokesman commented that Shalabi was “a global jihad-affiliated operative” that “posed a threat to the area” and that she assaulted the soldiers who arrested her.