Palestinian writer Linah Alsaafin’s article at Al-Monitor, focusing on the experiences of Palestinian women political prisoners, includes interviews with Sumoud Karajeh and Addameer’s Ehteram Ghazawneh:
In October 2009, Sumoud Karajeh stabbed an Israeli soldier at Qalandiya checkpoint, the main military barrier that separates the West Bank from Jerusalem and the 1948 Palestinian territories. Karajeh was arrested on the spot and, after a lengthy interrogation, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to kill a soldier.
Now 25, Karajeh lives with her family in the village of Saffa, near Ramallah, one of the more than 1,000 prisoners released in exchange for one Israeli soldier in the October 2011 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel. Yet the memories of the difficult two years she spent in an Israeli prison will forever be seared in her mind.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/israel-palestinian-women-prisoners.html
