Israel says she's a 'terrorist' — but after a year in prison, she still doesn't know why

After more than a year and three months sitting behind bars in an Israeli detention center, Jeneen Amro says she still doesn't know why she was arrested, with soldiers sweeping into her room in Dura, just outside the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, and arresting her at gunpoint.

DURA, West Bank — Israeli soldiers burst into her bedroom in the middle of the night as she slept, arresting her at gunpoint as her younger sisters watched on. But after more than a year in prison, Jenin Amro told NBC News she still doesn’t know why she was detained.

Like all of the 90 Palestinian women and children released in the first hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas in January, she was labeled as a “terrorist” by the Israel Prison Service. But Amro denies any militant ties, and Israeli authorities have not responded to multiple requests for specific details on why she was held for over a year.

“How am I a terrorist? I was a university student who attended, studied and lived with my family,” the 23-year-old told NBC News last month, two days after she was freed as part of the deal between Israel and Hamas and was allowed to return to her family home in Dura in the occupied West Bank.

Sitting in a plastic chair outside her family’s stone-built home surrounded by greenery and farm animals, Amro said she was “in shock” as she was taken to Damon Prison near the Israeli city of Haifa.

“I was wondering what was happening and why this was happening to me,” she said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-says-terrorist-year-prison-still-doesnt-know-rcna188707

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