Summary
The West Bank hunger striker who followed Khader Adnan in February 2012, whose forty-three-day strike ended not in release home but in three years’ coercive exile to Gaza, in Falk’s Part 3 posts (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.103-109).
Details
- As Falk gives her: a young woman from Burqin in the northern West Bank, a member of Islamic Jihad, dedicated to her family; previously held in administrative detention at HaSharon Prison for thirty months between 2009 and 2011, and released in the prisoner exchange that freed 1027 Palestinians and Gilad Shalit (PDF p.104).
- Rearrested allegedly with a strip search by a male soldier, she began a hunger strike on February 16, 2012 against her treatment and administrative detention; her parents were denied visitation, she was placed in solitary confinement, and her parents committed to strike as long as she remained detained (PDF p.104).
- Her sister Zahra, as quoted by Falk from Linah Alsaafin: “I don’t want to immortalize her, I just want her to live.” (PDF p.106) Zahra also says her sister chose Islamic Jihad “on a whim” when prison security forces asked which faction she belonged to (PDF p.113).
- The ending, on the forty-third day: exile to the Gaza Strip for three years, far from home and family, which Falk treats under Article 49(1) and Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and compares to Winnie Mandela’s South African exile (PDF p.106-108).
- Yael Maron of Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, quoted by Falk: her story is “a remarkable example of a struggle that’s completely nonviolent towards one’s surroundings” (PDF p.105).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Administrative Detention, Hunger Strikes, Khader Adnan, Islamic Jihad, Gaza