He added in a statement that the IOA is currently holding 35 Palestinian women in Hasharon and Damon prisons while the only detainee from Gaza, Wafa'a Al-Biss, is held in solitary confinement in Ramle jail.
He said that the Israeli occupation forces rounded up about 850 Palestinian females in the period since the Aqsa intifada in 2000 until the current year of 2011.
Farwana noted that the IOA does not differentiate in its treatment of prisoners whether on the basis of sex, age, social or political status, or even health and humanitarian conditions and exercise all forms of psychological and physical torture on all prisoners.
Female prisoners are subjected to the same treatment of male prisoners including torture, isolation, humiliation, physical assault, and sometimes molestation, the researcher underlined.
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