I sourced these clips from two documentaries* where various Palestinian female revolutionaries and former political prisoners courageously recount the abject horror they confronted in Zionist dungeons. *“Women in Struggle” (2004, dir. Buthina Canaan Khoury, available on http://cultureunplugged.com) and “Sing Your Tale, Little Bird” (shot in 1993, released in 2007, dir. Arab Loutfi, available on YouTube http://youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q?si…)

“[The Israeli soldier] secured my legs and tried to rape me with a stick.” THREAD: Systemic weaponization of sexual violence against Palestinian political prisoners is not an aberration—the Zionist regime has long used rape, torture as a means to forcibly extract confessions.

1960s: “[the most difficult moment] was when they stripped me naked and brought my father [into the interrogation room] and tried to force him to sleep with me” This is a courageous testimony from Rasmea Odeh who, like Aisha Odeh (in the above clip), was incarcerated in the 1960s.

“She [the Israeli soldier] was worse than the men. She was wearing a thin, high-heeled shoe… She stomped in my stomach while I was thrown on the floor… She said, ‘I am preparing you so that a [soldier] can come sleep with you.’”

“I became temporarily paralyzed to [due to the torture] … the first question that my sister asked me, before even greeting me, was ‘did they really dishonor [violate] you?’”

A Palestinian child going to school.

happened during the peaceful protest, The Great March of Return.

Five Palestinian children were forcefully detained and abused, the children were as young as 8 Their crime? picking wild vegetables. This happened in 2021.

Treatment of children

The moment an old Palestinian woman is evicted from her house by Jewish squatters. The house, which had been in her family for generations, was given to Jewish immigrants fresh off the plane from Eastern Europe, people who have no roots on Palestinian land.