Sleepless nights for mothers of Palestinians jailed in occupied West Bank

“I don’t sleep anymore,” Latifa Abu Hamid said while looking at pictures of her children hanging on the walls of her living room, two women and 10 men. All have passed through Israeli prisons.

Four are still languishing in jail while a fifth died in custody 14 months ago. His body remains in the hands of the Israelis, she said.

Another died in 1994, in an operation triggered by the death of an Israeli.

Hamid, 74, said she wanted to pave “another path” for her children, one of “education and knowledge”.