"I asked them, 'Why are you arresting me?' The officer replied, 'Simply because you're his mother. If he doesn't come now, we'll arrest you instead,'"
"I was confused and scared and didn't know what to do."
"They arrested me and put me in solitary confinement in cold, harsh conditions,"
"Every day, the officer told me I was being arrested because I'm Asim's mother. My only crime, then and now, is being a mother."
Israeli soldiers conducted a raid on Suhair Barghouti’s home in Kobar while searching for her son Muhammad, who was visiting family in Jericho. Soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded the 66-year-old and warned she would be arrested because she was his mother. Barghouti had been detained previously in 2019 during a similar pursuit of her son Asim and described solitary confinement and harsh conditions. Israeli forces carry out daily mass arrest campaigns across the West Bank. Women are sometimes detained not for crimes they committed but because of their relation to people labeled as wanted, often under administrative detention without charge.
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