The 18^th of March comes every year loaded of pain and suffering for Palestinian women. While women all over the world celebrate this day, the occupation authorities continue targeting the Palestinian women and arresting tens of them in bad conditions, violating the simplest human rights.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated, in a report issued on the occasion of the International Women's Day that the Israeli forces intended to arrest Palestinian women since 1948, where 16.000 women have been arrested.

The Commission also stated that 27 of the total women Detainees are serving different sentences, where 12 of them are currently held without a sentence and 4 under the administrative detention.

The detainee Amal Taqatqa from Bait Fajjar/ Bethlehem is detained since 1/12/2014 and sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment.

The Head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, stated that the occupation authorities practice the cruelest methods of torture and medical negligence against women detainees. They are subjected to brutal attacks, physical torture, continues threatening, deprivation of family visits, high fines and deprivation of education.

He also stated that institutions of women's rights are not doing their job effectively in terms of protecting Palestinian women detainees, in the light of the Israeli stubbornness and breaching all international rules which guarantee women detainees' rights.

Abu Baker confirmed that the world celebrates women on the 8^th of March every year, in appreciation of them and honoring them on their roles in different aspects of life, but ignores the Palestinian women and their suffering, especially female detainees whose rights are violated and subjected to repression and abuse.