“Zionist general interrogated me because I had diplomatic passport,” says politician’s wife

The wife of a political party’s leader says a Zionist general questioned her because she had a diplomatic passport. “We did not believe that we were safe. As if we were in the hell,” Abu Djerra Soltani’s spouse Nadjwa told Echorouk in an interview.

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• How did you experience the Israeli attack on the flotilla?
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• In the beginning, we did not believe that we were safe. As if we were in the hell. We saw all kinds of weapons. People on Gaza-bound aid ships were shouting “Allah is the Greatest” from midnight to dawn. A large number of Israeli soldiers attacked the flotilla and were looking for Turkish and Algerian people. Then, the ship’s captain announced that his wife had been detained.
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• Who was the first woman detained by the Israeli soldiers?
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• It was the ship captain’s wife and her Turkish-born child. He was held hostage in return for docking the ship. The captain told us the ship was surrounded.
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• How did the Israeli soldiers deal with women? Were you harassed and did men search you?
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• They bound us for nine hours under the sun. They prevented us from everything even toilets and water. They were happy to see some of us week and fainted because of the hot weather. Male soldiers tried to search us but we refused and insisted on being searched by women. The “tomboys” insulted and humiliated us.
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• Did the female Israeli soldiers torture you?
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• They were beating us. They searched us for more than six times and interrogated us for ten times. They even searched our underwear. When we refused to be searched by men, female soldiers came and tried to torture us psychically. They beat and insulted us. They were talking to us in Arabic, English and Hebrew.
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• Did the Zionist entity know that you had a diplomatic passport?
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• Once they knew that I had a diplomatic passport, I was told I would be interrogated in a different way. A Zionist general questioned me: “So, you are a diplomat. Why have you come to Israel?” I told him: “I have come to Gaza and you kidnapped me from the international waters. I will sue you.” He wrote down a red sign on my passport.
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• Did they accept your deportation to Algeria or did they oblige you to sign documents?
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• I was among the latest women who were allowed to be deported. I was asked to wait for a while to get the go-ahead for my deportation. We had to wait for five hours.