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23 years since the last arrest of the leader Marwan Barghouthi

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Commission of Detainees Affairs

28 years spent in the occupation's prisons

23 years
Since the last arrest of the leader
Marwan Barghouti

Leader Barghouti is isolated in Megiddo Prison.
He is sentenced to five life sentences and 40 years.

He suffered injuries since last September as a result of a brutal beating.

He has been arrested many times, the first being at the age of 15.

The leader Kareem Younis is free, leaving the banner of " detainees deanship" to his cousin Maher Younis

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The leader detainee Kareem Younis is free today after spending 4 decades in prison.
 
He left the banner of detainees deanship to his cousin Maher Younis, leaving 4700 detainees waiting their freedom.
 
We receive today a hero who sacrificed himself to defend his cause, where he was arrested while being in university in 1983,under the charge of the affiliation to Fatah Movement, weapon possession and killing an Israeli soldier.
 
The court of Lod sentenced him to execution by hanging, and then adjusted the sentence to life imprisonment, which was specified later to 40 years.
 
Over the last years, the Israeli authorities refused to release him as with all detainees who were arrested before the Oslo Accord, in spite of many exchange bargains.
 
Despite the obstacles he faced in prison, he completed his education in prison, and became a supervisor on the education process for detainees.
 
He released two books during his detention, the first one "the political reality in Israel" in 1990, and " the ideological conflict and settlement" in 1993.
 
He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement in 2017.
 
He was deprived of bidding farewell to his beloved ones, where his father died in 2013 and his mother died in 2022.

 

(314) detainees served more than 20 years in Israeli prisons

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The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated today that the list of long-term detainees has risen to (314) ,after the join of (21) detainees on November 2022. There are (39) detainees who spent more than 25 years in Israeli prisons, where the detainee Jamal Alhour joined the list of " generals of patience " last month.

The list also includes (25) detainees who are imprisoned since before the Oslo Accord and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. The Commission stated that the list of "iconic detainees " , those who were imprisoned since more than 30 years respectively, has risen to (19) detainees after the join of Mohammad Falana, from Ramallah, and he is detained since 29/11/1992.

(8) detainees have served more than 35 years in Israeli prisons, the oldest of whom are the detainees Maher and Kareem Younis, who are imprisoned since 40 years.

It must be pointed out that there are tens of detainees who have been released under the shalit bargain, but they got rearrested in 2014. The detainee Nael Barghouthi is a case in point, where he spent more than 42 years in Israeli prisons.

The Commission confirmed that these numbers are unprecedented, and likely to rise during the coming months.

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