Palestinian Female Prisoners after Oct 7th 2023.

1. Background Information: On the eve of October 2023, the world quaked for stories of rape, harassment, and decapitated babies, without asking for proof. 249 days in, 37746 martyrs, 7000 disappeared persons, and the world is yet to stand for Palestine.1 I’m not going to talk about the double standards of the international community, nor to tell what stories are credible and what stories are not, my sole purpose is to try and raise alerts on issues that might not make it to the spotlight during these times of mass genocide. Today, we have no actual numbers to show for Palestinian victims, whether they are murdered, disappeared, imprisoned, or even trafficked. The official figures that are announced and mentioned are all of the reported cases, and while the number is extremely alarming and high, detainees for we only know the count of persons kept in official prisons and any number mentioned including the reported 14170 detainees in official prisons would be undermining someone’s existence The situation of Palestinian prisoners in general has been insufferable even before the events that unfolded on Oct 7th 2023, yet it became even worse after. As reports emerged of secret make-up detention camps set up inside the green line to keep Gaza detainees in, 36 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are reported by the Israeli authorities to have died in these camps. The situation is exacerbated by the intersectional identities of people, meaning that acts of humiliation, torture, and oppression are felt and experienced differently. Thus, we’re focusing on the situation of Palestinian female prisoners in the “official” Israeli prisons (including the detention phase), noting that out of the 7000 disappeared Palestinians there are 4700 women and children.