First allow me with the name of the "Palestinian studies and development association", with me personally, and with my "released prisoners" whom are here with me participating in this conference , allow me to thank all of you who have worked on organizing  this conference and the audience especially dear Sandra.
I feel honored  to get the invitation to participate in this important meeting with you.

But sadly and as you know here in Palestine we live in an extraordinary situation, since we are living under land, sea and air siege .
 as noticed there are no actual results for the different and difficult trials for a whole month,  Sadly I couldn’t reach my colleagues in Israeli's jails, more we've all became "males and females" all the Palestinian people, living in a big huge jail.

This awful prison where we cant have the minimum human life support, not even for animals … no power, no water, no medicine, no job, no food and closed boarders in a poverty level of 80% from the over all population in Palestine and more than 16,000 " males and females" prisoners inside the Israeli jails, under a very humiliating and discriminatory situations.

Houses have been destroyed, trees have been taken off , Judaism of Jerusalem , increasing settlements and the continuing process of building the separation wall in the west bank, political assassinations, incursions of cities, villages and camps, breaking all the international rules and agreements.

All of this is happening under a killing silence from the whole world as if it is frozen , meanwhile the whole world is blindly supporting Israel and keeps providing a cover for all what she is doing and its totally standing in Israel side whatever she does , and after all our people  whom are defending their right of freedom, dignity and independency , the right that has been provided and approved by the international agreements, they have been accused  by terrorism  and all western countries and the U.S.A   are blaming the victim and defending the criminal.

Isn't it such a shame on this world till this century  still defending and protecting occupation with all they can, day and night? All of this using the name of democracy ……. And the innocent armless and safe countries including us, who believe in freedom are left alone without protection and support from the entire world?

Regardless all these cruel situations , we " the Palestinian females prisoners" in our association would like to assure you according to a hard personal experience that we have faced inside Israeli prisons, that what have been done to us and our people at the prisons are such fascism acts that no one can imagine …. We the women attending here in the room present a small part of the huge numbers from the Palestinian women and girls who have been arrested and now at the Israeli jails

Our association which is led by its board  is working on "released women and women still inside jails support program" contains 170,000 released prisoners and 3 families of prisoners still in jails and I'm personally one of them.

I was the first woman from Gaza strip who have been chased by the Israeli army on 1967 and I was the first female prisoner, the first to be exiled  after doing my time in the prison, I was arrested twice and I have spent 2 years in prison and paid a bail, after I did my time I was forced to leave my home land to Jordan, I was only 15 years old when I was arrested, and my cellmates were the same my age or few years older than me , which indicates that we all were only teens, including my cellmates there was a 40 days old baby "Zenat" whom was still an embryo when her mother" GOD bless her soul and make her rest in peace" was arrested while she was doing her high school final exam… not only young women were arrested, but also old and very old women with their daughters or for their children.

There are different generations in the Israeli jails since 1967 till this day most of them were took out of Palestine after doing their times in jails, some have spent 10 years and more, some have miscarried, some were born in jails and the mother was banned from holding  her baby after she was born, including the injuries that have been caused by hard ways of  torture starting by beating on the head  spoiling cold and hot water, putting off cigarettes on their bodies and ending with sole cells which are most like a grave and there is hardly a space for one person , the prisoner there can't  see the sun or breathe the air , can't differentiate between day and night, taking off all her clothes during investigating, undressing her in front of her parents and in front the soldiers and threatening her of sexual abuse , and some women were raped.

Prisoners there were forbidden from seeing their families for 6 months or more because they refused to talk. Not allowing any needs, and the only thing allowed to buy was in the prison itself , the food was really bad and sometimes the prisoners were forced to eat by a tube stuck in their mouth which was very painful, and forbidding news from outside and any essential need like medicine, books… etc.

In addition to  all the physical abuse and insults prisoners suffered, they were forbidden from sleeping when they wanted to, and force them to sleep at 10:00 p.m. and force them to wake up at 5:00 a.m. and to work for them.

After long fights for the right of  movement they could continue their studies in jail.

Prisoners suffering wont stop when she gets out, instead it starts after going out , where she'll face a conflict with the society's culture, in the same time they get out of jail as heroes, they'll be treated badly, and most women who got out have been divorced or left by their husbands, single girls wont get married, some of them were forced by their families to be a second wife and she'll live alone eventually neither divorced nor married, and most of them are socially isolated and suffer from psychological, social and economical problems.

None of the released prisoners were offered psychological therapy and they don’t get a legal or social support, most of them died because of a heart attack , cancer or can't walk anymore, in addition to high blood pressure, and other diseases, a huge number of them have no main source of living and the people here are not aware of the percentage of unemployment related to released prisoners.

These released prisoners have not received  any care or support from any of the governments nor from the social organizations 

And we are proud on our association to be the first association who really cares for released prisoners working under "Palestine is bigger than everyone" and our support program  so they can be strong enough as a symbol of  dignity and power, regardless their political views.
And we have totally depended on our selves to accomplish an important part of the accomplishment for the released prisoners in order to get them back in the way to get their good image in the society and support them socially legally physically and psychologically, and to let the whole society know the sacrifice they have made and to let them know exactly who they were by teaching them how to write their stories and to help in improving their economical situation as possible.

UNIFAM association was a great help in doing all that, and we thank her a lot for its efforts to accomplish a complete program to support released prisoners .

These released prisoners assured that they'll always be as usual strong , giving, united  regardless the siege , and they are all looking forward to all women in the world and in Europe , supporting them to get to our historical dream in getting a dependent country Palestine with Jerusalem as a capital for it., and to support Palestinian women living under the siege forced to all the people in Palestine, which is considered a war crime , that must be stopped, not to be supported and in an enhanced relationship, and also force U.S.A to play its role by stopping Israel from what it is doing with the Palestinian people.

Palestinian women, specifically released prisoners are demanding all the humanitarian associations and all the free world to raise their voices and to do their best to help the Palestinian people in getting rid of this occupation and to show some support for people in prison and help in forcing the occupation to let them out of jail, not forgetting that half of the political leaders and also ministers are now in the Israeli jails including "Ahmad Saadat who was kidnapped from his cell in Jericho prison, with many of his mates, also " Marwan Al barghouti" and Dr. Aziz dweak the presedent of the Palestinian legislations council  and a number  of mothers and girls  who are facing serious health problems and they have been medically neglected and their families were forbidden from visiting.

Dear sisters participating in this conference, I'm aware that the time will  not be enough to talk about all the sufferings prisons have in this killing siege, I wanted so bad to be with you today but sadly I couldn't because I wasn't able to leave Gaza to attend this conference … But my belief in our case, the occupation wasn't able to stop my thoughts to communicate with you , and thanks to technology  that helped in breaking this siege , and a great thanks to Sandra whom have put a great effort to enable us to communicate and talk with you today , so our voices can be reached to you , and enables these women who have suffered a lot in the jails to assure you that we will still go on our fight and struggle till we achieve our goals and provide our people freedom and independency and building an independent country Palestine with Jerusalem as a capital for it and the refugees getting back to their houses.
And we'll do our bests to unite Palestinians, because we believe that separation inside is the biggest risk we are facing, and we need to get rid of it in order to stand strong in our struggle against the occupation.
And as we've been always united in prison we'll be united for Palestine outside the prison because we are working under " Palestine is above all" 

Thank you all for listening and thank you for you concerns about us, and we are sure that our voice will get its way to your support to get our freedom and build our country and get the refugees back according to decision 194

Finally a thanks to all the released women and to all women in the world, and we say to them be united for freedom for independency and social equity, glory for martyrs, freedom for prisoners and victory to struggling people.