A Palestinian prisoner has ultimately been produced from captivity right after paying 19 a long time in the Israeli regime’s jails.
Israeli authorities released Majdi Hussein al-Qubaisi on Thursday. He was arrested in November 2002 when his family’s property was stormed by Israeli forces in the village of Abwein, located north of the town of Ramallah in the occupied West Lender.
The occupying routine accused Qubaisi at the time of belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigade, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, and taking part in assaults on Israeli settlers’ cars around Ramallah.
The prisoner was subjected to harsh interrogations for more than two months, during which he confronted the most serious kinds of torture and abuse.
Right before his arrest, Qubaisi was studying laptop or computer engineering at Birzeit College but the Israeli authorities prevented him from finishing his training and denied his household visits for many years.
The unjust sentence and the violations against Qubaisi did not have an affect on his solve as he embarked on researching and composing in prison, and made the decision to memorize the full Holy Qur’an within 9 months in 2008.
Much more than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in Israeli jails. Hundreds have been incarcerated under the follow of administrative detention.
Some Palestinian prisoners have even been held in administrative detention for up to eleven decades.
Very last thirty day period, hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons went on a hunger strike in protest against an intensified Israeli crackdown on Palestinian detainees that took spot subsequent the escape of six inmates from a most-protection Israeli jail on September 6.
The starvation strike, which began on October 13, was suspended 9 days afterwards just after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement declared “victory” above the Israel Jail Support.
On September 6, Zakaria Zubeidi, a former commander of the Palestinian resistance team al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade in Jenin, and 5 customers of the Islamic Jihad group managed to tunnel their way out by way of their cell’s drainage program to escape from the highest-safety jail of Gilboa.
It was the most significant Palestinian escape from an Israeli jail since 1987, when six users of the Islamic Jihad broke out of a intensely-guarded jail in Gaza.
Soon after the current escape of the six inmates, Israel adopted collective punitive measures in opposition to the Palestinian prisoners. The 6 Palestinian prisoners had been all recaptured just about two weeks later.
