The Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy reports that it has obtained documented information confirming that the Israeli occupation authorities are using the detained Palestinian nurse, Tasneem Marwan al-Hams, the daughter of the imprisoned Palestinian physician Dr. Marwan al-Hams, as a tool of pressure and coercion in an attempt to force her father to provide statements and confessions that serve the occupation’s narrative in certain cases.
This conduct by the occupying state—using the relatives of prisoners and detainees as hostages and instruments of blackmail, pressure, and intimidation—reflects nothing but the level of moral decay and confusion that the security apparatus and all military and political levels have reached in their treatment of Palestinians in general, and of prisoners and detainees in particular, especially women and children.
The kidnapping of nurse Tasneem al-Hams—which did not prompt a single international response from the global community—preceded by the abduction of her father from his workplace, and the ongoing abuses committed against this family inside Israeli prisons, along with what is now coming to light and what may emerge later, all confirm once again, and without ambiguity, that the occupation persists in employing the methods of gangs, the language of thuggery, and the law of the jungle in its treatment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
The Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy strongly condemns this dangerous and barbaric behavior and calls for the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts of nurse Alaa al-Hams and her father, Dr. Marwan al-Hams. The Center also demands their immediate release, as their arrest is clearly retaliatory. Furthermore, the attempt to fabricate charges should not deceive international, human rights, and humanitarian institutions, which the Center urges to take a more effective role in confronting these grave practices committed by the occupation against all prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons.
Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy
Sunday, 23 November 2025
