“We kiss each other with our fingers”
(Majed, Prisoner Manal’s son)

“When they attacked us with water hoses, I hid my baby in my bosom and ran to the safest place in the cell to protect him as much as I could”.
(Prisoner Manal Ghanim)

Press Release - March 21, 2005
Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) today launched a campaign demanding that the Israeli government release Palestinian female prisoner Manal Naji Mahmoud Ghanim, 29 years old from Tulkarem, and her child Nour, 1 and a half years old, who have been imprisoned since 17 April 2003. Both Manal and Nour are being held in Telmond Prison. Manal, who suffers from Thalasemia, was arrested while she was pregnant. Taken away from her family in handcuffs, Manal delivered Nour in an Israeli hospital. The prison administration does not provide Manal and Nour with the special medical care they require, nor does it provide Nour with the milk he needs as his mother cannot breast feed him.

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Press Release - January 31, 2005
After 6 months of being held in Ofer Detention Center (just outside Ramallah) as an administrative detainee, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, Abdul Latif Gheith, was released on January 27, 2005. Mr. Gheith, 63 years old, was arrested on July 29, 2004, by Israeli soldiers while crossing the Qalandya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

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