The family of Fethiya Khanfar has appealed to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and all Palestinian and international organisations to intervene immediately to save her life and free her from Al-Ramla prison, where she is being detained by Israeli security forces.
In a press statement, Khanfar’s daughter Sanaa stressed the need for high-level intervention on the part of the Palestinian Authority to negotiate with the Israeli occupation for the release of her elderly mother, who is “experiencing difficult health conditions in prison.”
Khanfar denounced the failure of PA officials to take the issue of her mother’s imprisonment seriously, noting that “all the promises made by many officials have proven to be empty words.”
She pointed out that her mother is held in Al-Ramla prison with civilian detainees convicted of drug-related crimes.
Fethyiye Khanfar, who comes from the town of Silat Al-Dhaher in the north of the West Bank, was arrested in February 2013 on her way to visit her son Rami in the Negev prison. She was detained for 18 days and then transferred to house arrest for nine months in the city of Rahat and forced to pay a 30,000 NIS bail ($7,878). She was released and returned to her home in October 2013 to await her trial. Last month, Khanfar was sentenced to 11 months in prison.
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