Jon Elmer has a piece at IPS about Palestinian women who have spent time in Israeli prisons. Despite the rotten conditions – both because of the total absence of women-specific accommodations as well as the fact that, well, it’s a prison – his interviewee, Khawla al Azraq, used her prison time to educate herself. She describes the experience as follows:
“Like any human community, there are contradictions,” says Al-Azraq. “But there is a common thread in the experience in prison that gives us strength, a common goal, a common purpose. We are joined together in struggle, so our shared experiences only make us stronger.”
Inspiring testament to the strength of the human spirit and criticism of Israeli strategy simultaneously.
