Occupation army boasts about arresting Yahya Ayyash's wife.. and widespread condemnation

The Israeli occupation army boasted about arresting the Palestinian woman Hiyam Ayyash, the widow of the martyr Yahya Ayyash. Israeli pages published a picture of two occupation soldiers, smiling sarcastically, with "Umm Al-Baraa Ayyash" blindfolded beside them.

The occupation army had arrested Hiyam Ayyash and ransacked her home in the northern mountain area of Nablus, due to her posting a picture on the anniversary of her husband Yahya Ayyash's assassination in 1996.

Zaher Jabarin, head of the "Hamas" movement in the West Bank, said that "the criminal Zionist occupation army's boasting about arresting the wife of the martyred leader Engineer Yahya Ayyash, and continuing to arrest Palestinian women; is a new folly for Ben Gvir and his gangs, which will not break Umm Al-Baraa's resolve, nor the image of our engineer who humiliated the occupation with his heroic operations and broke the prestige of the criminal occupier."

He added, "We affirm that the criminal terrorist enemy's continued arrest of women, especially the wives and mothers of martyrs and prisoners; will backfire with wrath and anger from our revolutionary youth and our heroic resistance fighters against the occupier and its settlers in the occupied West Bank."

Activists said that the occupation army, which lived in terror during Yahya Ayyash's active periods in the early nineties of the last century, came to claim victory by arresting his wife.

In recent months, practices of abuse against prisoners have increased, which are legalized and called for by the extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.