Summary
A Jewish lawyer in Three Mothers, Three Daughters who represented Samira in her 1991 detention and whose work Umm Abdullah also credits with saving the family house in Aida Camp from a second demolition (Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories, lines 1123, 1186).
Details
- Samira says Leah Tsemel was the only visitor allowed to her in Maskubiya in January–February 1991; usually she has no time to visit prisoners, but the Gulf War gave her more time; after at first being refused entry she appealed to the Supreme Court and won, visited Samira several times, passed messages from her mother, and got Samira and her sister Sarah released at twenty-five days (Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories, line 1123).
- Umm Abdullah calls her “a very good person”: Tsemel visited Samira and Sarah when the family was not allowed to, passed messages back and forth, and then convinced the judge that Hatem was living in his own place, not his parents’, so the army boarded up and sealed Hatem’s house instead of destroying the family house again (line 1186).
Related pages
Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women’s Stories, Samira, Umm Abdullah