Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Oman- A few days ago, the Israeli Internal Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced the arrest of Jordanian Anas Hassan Al-Sharman (33 years old) on the grounds that he belonged to a cell that the agency claimed was affiliated with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Nablus, and that it was planning to carry out an attack with an explosive device inside Israel.
Hassan Al-Sharman (the prisoner’s father) told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that his son Anas is married and has a child, and he left Jordan on a regular visit to his relatives in Tulkarm in the West Bank 3 days before his arrest, where he communicated with his wife several times during his stay in the West Bank, and that the last contact between them was It was hours before his arrest by the Israeli authorities.
Al-Sharman confirmed that his son Anas, who works as a teacher in the Ministry of Education in the Irbid Governorate in northern Jordan, suffers from several diseases, most notably severe type 1 diabetes, which causes him frequent diabetic comas. He warned of the seriousness of his health condition, and that he urgently needs follow-up. He received diligent and continuous medical treatment, holding the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for his life.
Shin Bet arrests young Jordanian Anas Al-Sharman from the northern town of Mazar in Irbid on charges of attempting to carry out an operation in the occupied territories during his visit to his maternal grandfather’s house in the West Bank.
Anas is a graduate of Yarmouk University and works as a teacher in the Ministry of Education. According to his family, he has been suffering from severe diabetes for 15 years. pic.twitter.com/GPVTH33u0j
— Akef Mahafzah (@aakefmahafzah) June 11, 2024
Conditions of detention
The family of the Jordanian prisoner called on the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work to release their son Al-Sharman, who is detained in Israeli prisons, as there has been no news of him since last March 14. The prisoner’s father said that he recently visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where officials promised him to do their best to follow up on his son’s case, and to strive to To release him.
The Israeli Shin Bet announced that it had thwarted an attack planned by the Hamas movement, claiming that the planning for the attack was under the direction of the movement’s headquarters in Turkey. In the operation, key members of the cell were arrested, and a powerful explosive device was seized. The arrest operation took place according to Israeli media sites on March 15. March 2024, and included Jordanian citizen Anas Al-Sharman.
Hebrew media reports indicated that the prisoner Al-Sharman was arrested in Nablus by members of Shin Bet and Israeli military intelligence, where he was suspected of “deep involvement in planning a major attack inside Israel,” according to their claim.
Punitive measures
A few days ago, a delegation from the families of Jordanian prisoners and the National Committee for Jordanian Prisoners and Missing Persons in Israeli Detention Centers visited the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and met with the Operations and Consular Affairs Department, to discuss the inhumane conditions and violations to which Jordanian prisoners are exposed in Israeli prisons on a daily basis, especially after October 7. Last October.
The delegation of the families of the prisoners called on the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to assume its responsibilities before the issue of the Jordanian prisoners, coordinate a visit to them, support them legally, and make efforts to protect them. The rapporteur of the National Committee for Prisoners and Missing Persons, Fadi Farah, confirmed – in his speech to Tel Aviv Tribune Net – that the Jordanian prisoners suffer from repeated violations that the Palestinian prisoners suffer inside. Israeli prisons.
Farah explained that the 22 Jordanian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons are being subjected to torture and beatings with excessive force, and are facing retaliatory measures carried out against them by the occupation authorities, by depriving them of their basic human rights, most notably preventing them from being visited by their families for years, in addition to the absence of health care. Punishment by solitary confinement, and other violations that do not take into account international human rights legislation.
The committee rapporteur pointed out that the Israeli authorities have increased their harsh measures against prisoners in prisons, especially Jordanian ones, as there has been no news of them from their families for 8 months now.
