by Peter A. Belmont / 2011-10-18
© 2011 Peter Belmont

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“I waited long enough for him to come back to me; 19 years of forced separation between us. I’ve always fantasized about our unborn child, as the imprisonment of my husband after less than one year of our marriage prevented me from ever having one.” She said after I asked her whether she feels better. “They broke into our house in October of 1993 and kidnapped him very late at night from inside our home in an excessively violent way.” She continued while tears are struggling to fall from her eyes. She looked in a different direction and fell in silence trying to hide that feminine character inside her.

RAMALLAH (IPS) - “I’m sick with worry about my daughter,” Yehiya al-Shalabi says. “I’m afraid of what they are doing to her. She has done nothing to deserve this. If they have anything against her why don’t they bring her to trial?”

Hana al-Shalabi, Yehiya’s 27-year-old daughter, has been languishing in Israeli administrative detention for more than two years. She is the longest serving Palestinian female political prisoner in administrative detention.

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