[Pnews] 5000 Palestinians Prisoners in Israel, as Palestine Marks Prisoner's Day

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5000 Palestinians Prisoners in Israel, as Palestine Marks Prisoner's DayApril
17, 2023
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A sit-in in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners was held in front of the
Red Cross headquarters in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine
Chronicle)

Marking Palestinian Prisoner’s Day on Monday, prisoners’ advocacy groups
said around 5000 Palestinians are currently incarcerated in Israel, the
official news agency WAFA reported.

The Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, the Palestinian
Prisoner’s Society, Addameer Association for Prisoner Support and Human
Rights, and Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Jerusalem, said in their joint
report that an estimated 4,900 political prisoners are currently
incarcerated in Israel.
Facts

   - Israel currently detains 31 Palestinian women.
   - Israel currently detains 160 Palestinian children, including a girl.
   - 1000 Palestinian prisoners – including six minors and two women – are
   currently held under administrative detention, with no charge nor trial.
   - 23 of the prisoners have been held since before the signing of the
   Oslo Accords in 1993,
   - The oldest Palestinian prisoner is Mohammad al-Tous, who was arrested
   in 1985.
   - 11 Palestinian prisoners were released in a prisoners’ exchange in
   2011 and then re-arrested in 2014. Among them, Nael Barghouti is considered
   the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner with 43 years behind bars.
   - Some 400 Palestinian prisoners have been detained for over 20 years
   - 554 Palestinian prisoners are serving multiple life terms. One of
   them, Abdullah Barghouti, was sentenced to 67 life sentences.
   - The Israeli occupation authorities are still holding the bodies of 12
   Palestinians who died while in prison, one of them held since 1980.
   - 700 Palestinian prisoners are ill, including 24 suffering from cancer.
   The most severe case among them is that of Walid Daqqa, who has been in an
   Israeli prison for 37 years.

Several rallies are planned for Monday in the occupied West Bank and
besieged Gaza, in support of the Palestinian prisoners.

*(PC, WAFA)*


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