Fatima Barnawi, the founder of the Palestinian Women's Police and veteran prisoner, dies at 83 Barnawi, whose father was Nigerian from Borno (where she got the name Barnawi) and mother was Palestinian-Jordanian, lead a team of policewomen in Gaza. Fatima Barnawi, a veteran Palestinian policewoman and the first female political prisoner held in an Israeli jail, died at the age of 83 on Thursday in a hospital in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Barnawi was born in 1939 in the Old City of Jerusalem under the British Mandate. She grew up in a...