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Article

22 Mar 2013

Author:
Adri Nieuwhof, Electronic Intifada

No Mothers’ Day for women held in G4S-equipped prisons [Israel & Palestine]

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited G4S to respond. G4S referred us to a previous statement] Over the last 45 years, Israel has arrested or detained 10,000 Palestinian women from the West Bank and Gaza, according to prisoners rights organization Addameer. The women are held mainly in Hasharon and Damon prisons inside Israel. The transfer of prisoners from the occupied West Bank and Gaza into Israel amounts to a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention...Who Profits?...has reported that...G4S has been involved in both prisons...[and] that G4S Israel has provided the entire security system and equipment for the central control room in Hasharon compound. Furthermore, the company has provided security services to Damon. Today, 12 female Palestinian prisoners are held in Hasharon prison inside Israel...The conditions in Hasharon are extremely difficult...Between 2003 and 2008, Addameer has documented four cases of women who gave birth in Israeli detention...Children are often denied the right to visit their mother in prison.