Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that 32 Palestinian female prisoners are held in the Israeli occupation prisons, including 9 mothers. In its statement, the commission added that the prisoner Shorouk Dwaiyat, 24, is in Damoun Prison, as she was arrested on October 7, 2015, after she was shot by live bullets fired by a settler on Al-Wad Street, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The commission indicated that the Israeli occupation authorities had previously issued a ruling against the female prisoner, Dwaiyat, to 16 years in prison, in addition to a fine of 80,000 shekels.

In the same context, the prisoner Khitam Al-Sa'afien, 58, is still being held in Damoun Prison, after the occupation forces issued an administrative ruling against her for a period of four months, but then they turned her file into a case. On November 2, 2020, the occupation forces arrested Al-Sa'afien.

Al-Sa'afien is married and has a son and two daughters. She is active in feminist union work. She chaired the Federation of Palestinian Women’s Committees in 2010. She is a member of the General Secretariat of the General Union of Palestinian Women, a member of the Regional Alliance of Women Defenders in the Middle East and North Africa, Vice-President of the Secretariat of the World March of Women, and a member of the General Authority of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.