A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 140 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted to have been initiated. 121. Israel 20/06/06 JUA TOR; VAW; Ms S. I. S. of Tulkarem, currently detained in Hasharon Military Prison. On 30 April 2006, Israeli forces took S. I. S. from the prison in Telmond to the Mei'r Kfar Hospital for the delivery of her baby. Her legs and hands were cuffed until the moment she entered the delivery room where she gave birth to her first son. Neither the detained husband and father of the child, nor other relatives were allowed to attend the birth operation, which was done by caesarian surgery. She was arrested by Israeli forces on 23 September 2005 when she was pregnant. During her arrest, she was removed from her home, forced to strip naked in an Israeli military vehicle and put on a white robe. Following the incident, the soldiers tied her hands and legs with plastic wires. While in the Maskobia Interrogation Center, S. I. S. was subjected to invasive body searches. She was also brutally beaten during her interrogation. The interrogators, who knew she was pregnant, also threatened to beat her to the point of miscarriage. Soldiers placed her husband in a nearby room in order to apply psychological pressure. Her cell is humid and has little ventilation. She said the prison food Government Response

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