"I was 10 years old. I remember visiting my mother in prison and feeling so
angry. I couldn’t hold her and couldn’t touch her. I knew my mother was not
a thief, not a criminal, not a killer. She had done nothing wrong. She was a
hero to me because she was fighting for my rights,” explains Ali Abu Awwad,
a West Bank former revolutionary. “From the start this was a personal
violation for me more than something political. Later, both of us were in
the prison in Hebron. I was arrested at 15 under an Israeli military law and
sentenced to four years. My mother, a well-known PLO activist, was in the
women’s prison there but I saw her only once.”
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