The Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Prison Authority arrested and imprisoned for almost two months an 82-year-old Gaza woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
She was jailed under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law. Because she was considered an unlawful combatant, Damon Prison in Israel’s north also refused a request by a lawyer from the Israeli organisation Physicians for Human Rights to meet with her.
She was released two weeks ago after an appeal was filed over the refusal to permit her to meet with the lawyer.
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