“The Israeli guards weren’t full of joy – we were”: One woman's journey from New Quay to an Israeli prison - video Dailymotion

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00:00We were shoved in this cage. It was a very small cage. It was maybe like three metres by four

00:05metres and there were 57 women in there. So we were crammed in like sardines and that it

00:14transpired was so we could see the judge, the detention judge. So luckily I got out of there

00:21like amongst the first to get out of there because I know some of the other women were there for like

00:25four or five hours in the hot sun. When I got there, the women were shouting for a doctor for

00:35medical help for somebody who was in there. People who were on regular medication mostly just didn't

00:41get it. I certainly know when they went through my bag, they threw everything in the bin.

00:46There was a woman, a young Mexican woman in my room and she was on heart medication and

00:51like, and they never, you know, she never had access to that at all. And at one point she had

00:57like a crisis. So the people in the cell two doors down, they had a medic in their cell. So they were

01:02giving us advice over the back wall radio on how to manage Arlene's heart crisis. So that's what I

01:15mean by like, there was so much solidarity between the women that in spite of some of the brutal

01:21treatment that we were getting, you know, we were okay and we were looking after each other and it was nice.