{"id":20675,"date":"2018-11-01T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:22:21","slug":"what-it-takes-for-palestinians-to-see-their-imprisoned-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20675","title":{"rendered":"What it takes for Palestinians to see their imprisoned relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71.2167364017\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Once a month, thousands of Palestinians make the long journey to various prisons in Israel to meet their detained family members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;On\u00a0those\u00a0nights, I can hardly\u00a0fall\u00a0asleep. I\u00a0constantly\u00a0worry that I will forget something, the permit or my\u00a0ID, and miss the visit,&#8221; says Mona Daraghmeh, who lives in Tubas, a village in the occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/occupied-west-bank.html\">West Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Though she can see her son for just 45 minutes, and only through a glass partition, missing the monthly prison visit is a terrifying prospect for 70-year-old <span>Daraghmeh<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Her family tried to dissuade her from taking the 12-hour trip that includes hours of waiting at checkpoints and a rigorous search before entering the prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We even tried to lie to her by saying she didn&#8217;t have the permit, but it didn&#8217;t help,&#8221; says her daughter, Kheyreyeh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the rest of the month, <span>Daraghmeh\u00a0<\/span>goes through old letters, photographs and books trying to fill the looming absence of her child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">More than 100,000 people from the occupied West Bank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/city\/gaza.html\">Gaza<\/a> and East Jerusalem take Red Cross buses every month to visit their relatives detained in Israel, a right granted to the detainees under international humanitarian laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><em>This photo essay is provided by ICRC.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a month, thousands of Palestinians make the long journey to various prisons in Israel to meet their detained family members. &#8220;On\u00a0those\u00a0nights, I can hardly\u00a0fall\u00a0asleep. I\u00a0constantly\u00a0worry that I will forget something, the permit or my\u00a0ID, and miss the visit,&#8221; says Mona Daraghmeh, who lives in Tubas, a village in the occupied West Bank. Though she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}