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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					08/02/2011 &#8211; 09:46 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; Palestinian women held  in Israel prisons have begun taking measures to see demands for their  basic rights are met, the ministry of prisoner affairs in Gaza said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">According to a recent report, the Israeli prison administration continues to detain 35 Palestinian women in inhumane conditions.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Their demands, though very basic in  nature, have so far been ignored by the administration. They include  permission to one phone call per month, to bring blankets and clothes  into the prison as prices rise for items sold in the facility, medical  care and an end to cell raids and strip searches.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">”These demands are basic rights of  prisoners. They must be granted without protest according to  international law. But Israel has ignored all human rights conventions  requiring good treatment of captives and full provision of their  rights,” said the ministry&#8217;s media department director Riyadh al-Ashqar.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Prisoners in Hasharon, 20 of them  altogether, are discussing steps to see their demands are answered,  including hunger strike, Ashqar said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">They are subjected to strip searches  during early morning prison raids, when the administration accompanied  by prison guards violently intrude and pull them out of their cells into  a confined area and for five hours search and confiscate personal  belongings including letters, notebooks and photographs.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ashqar revealed that the administration had denied entry of medical board that meant to provide urgent health care to the women.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The report details the administrative detention of three women, saying they have yet to be indicted or sentenced.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">One of those prisoners Lenan Abu Ghalma,  who was arrested in July 2010, was recently given another six months in  administrative detention after claims of a secret file against her.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7i9CXV3ipUWcDyX7TCcFSJPomGhYHmHWrYS72VJ9szUOsRQOlYxtSN5K8Ko0WUJTDvcdwd3SzldM3mtqFeNblQ8QKdrA%2b%2bEhZm6FOD081gKo%3d">Palestinian women plan protests after prison administration ignores demands</a>.</p>
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