More Than a Thousand Days Without a Red Cross Visit, and a Silence That Doubles the Suffering<\/p>
The occupation is holding 17 Jordanian prisoners. Another 34 Jordanians have disappeared, and their families believe they are held in secret prisons or that their bodies are kept in the cemeteries of numbers.<\/p>
Getting news out of the prisons was hard before the genocidal war on Gaza. Now it is close to impossible. The occupation has sealed them off completely, and the crimes against prisoners have escalated: abuse, starvation, humiliation. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been barred from visiting for more than a thousand days.<\/p>
No one watches the prisons now. Repression is constant, and no one is held to account.<\/p>
The National Committee for Jordanian Prisoners and Missing Persons in Occupation Prisons keeps documenting conditions and counting numbers. News is cut off entirely. The blackout makes it hard to track where prisoners are held, or to learn how they are.<\/p>
Fadi Farah, the committee’s rapporteur, told the Prisoners’ Media Office in an exclusive interview that the number stands at 17. All of them are cut off from their families, who are left fighting for any word of their fate and their condition.<\/p>
How the 17 Are Held<\/strong><\/p> Four of the 17 are serving life sentences. Eight are serving fixed terms. One is held in administrative detention. Four more are waiting for the occupation’s courts to sentence them.<\/p> Farah says the constant transfers between prisons, together with the blackout, leave the committee unable to pin down where the men are held. Jordanian prisoners and their families were suffering before the war, he says, but the war pushed it to a level without precedent.<\/p> “Before the war we had a compounded suffering in the difficulty of communication and visits for the families of Jordanian prisoners. Their families live in Jordan while their sons languish in the prisons. Only small numbers managed to visit, and at long intervals. From the outbreak of the war until today, conditions have become harder for everyone.”<\/p> Four Serving Life<\/strong><\/p> Four Jordanians are among the 118 prisoners serving life sentences in occupation prisons.<\/p> Abdullah Ghaleb Barghouti, 53, has been held the longest and carries the heaviest sentence of any of them: life repeated 67 times. The occupation arrested him in 2003 and accused him of taking part in several operations. He has spent years in solitary confinement.<\/p> Mohammad Fahmi al-Rimawi, 59, is seriously ill. He has Mediterranean fever, and one of his lungs has failed. He has lost a great deal of weight and is left without medical care. The occupation arrested him in 2001 and accused him, along with several other prisoners, of taking part in the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi. He is serving life.<\/p> Raed Mahmoud Jabbar Khalil, 47, is serving two life sentences plus 20 years. The occupation arrested him in 2015 and accused him of carrying out an operation in Tel Aviv, then demolished his family’s home in Hebron in 2016.<\/p> Kamal Hani Jouri, 26, is the youngest of the four. His health has deteriorated sharply. The occupation arrested him in 2023 and sentenced him to life plus 28 years. It alleged that he carried out an operation in the illegal settlement of “Shavei Shomron.”<\/p> Eight Serving Fixed Terms<\/strong><\/p> Eight Jordanians are serving fixed terms. Nasser Nafez Daraghmeh, 47, is serving the longest of them, 36 years. He has been in prison since 2000.<\/p> Ahmad Abdel Fattah Awad, 47, has been held since 2003. He is serving 30 years. Several blood clots he suffered in prison have broken his health. He has heart trouble.<\/p> Mohammad Jumaa Abu Zubeida, 39, lost his father at the end of July. There is no word on whether he knows. Cut off from their families, Jordanian prisoners often learn of a death at home long after the fact. Sometimes they never learn at all.<\/p> The occupation is holding Abu Zubeida over social media posts and his engagement with the Palestinian cause. He is serving two and a half years. The occupation also fined him 2,000 shekels, added a 12-month suspended term that hangs over him for five years from the date of his release, and set a 5,000-shekel bond for three years.<\/p> Four Held Without a Verdict<\/strong><\/p> Four Jordanian prisoners are still held without a final ruling. Hassan Marwan Saeed, 25, has waited the longest. He has been in detention since 2022, and his case remains before the occupation’s courts.<\/p> Stalling is the policy the occupation authorities apply to detainees.<\/p> 34 Missing Between Secret Prisons and the Cemeteries of Numbers<\/strong><\/p> Another 34 Jordanians have gone missing. Their families still do not know where they are or what became of them. All they can confirm is that the men disappeared inside Palestinian territory.<\/p> The families believe that the men are held in secret underground Israeli prisons, or that their bodies are kept in the cemeteries of numbers. Nothing official confirms any of it.<\/p>Laith al-Kanani is the most recent to disappear. Contact with him stopped as he crossed the border from Egypt into Palestinian territory. Ever since, his family has been searching for anything that would tell them what happened to him. Or where he is.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More Than a Thousand Days Without a Red Cross Visit, and a Silence That Doubles the SufferingThe occupation is holding 17 Jordanian prisoners. 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