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Thu 30 Mar 2023 11:34 am - Jerusalem Time

On Earth Day.. 4,800 prisoners are languishing in the Israeli prisons

Today, Thursday, the Prisoners' Club confirmed that about (4,800) prisoners are held in 23 Israeli prisons.


In a statement, the club stated that 29 female prisoners are languishing in "Damon Prison", while 170 children are languishing in (Ofer, Megiddo, and Damon) prisons.


While the number of old prisoners arrested before the signing of the Oslo agreement reached (23) prisoners, the oldest of them is the prisoner Muhammad Al-Tus, who has been detained since 1985. In addition, there are (11) prisoners who were released in the (Wafaa Al-Ahrar) deal, who were re-arrested by the occupation, and they are among the old prisoners who They were arrested before (Oslo) and released in 2011 and re-arrested in 2014, most notably the prisoner Nael Al-Barghouti, who is serving the longest period of detention in the history of the captive movement, and who entered his (43rd) year in the occupation prisons , of which he spent (34) years continuously.


The club said: "The number of prisoners who were sentenced to life imprisonment is (554) prisoners, and the highest prisoner sentence among them is the prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouti, whose term is (67) life."


The number of martyrs of the captive movement since 1967 has reached (236), in addition to hundreds of prisoners who were martyred after their liberation from diseases they inherited from prisons.


While the number of martyred prisoners whose bodies are being held is (12) prisoners.


The club confirmed that the number of sick prisoners reached about (700) prisoners who suffer from diseases of various degrees and who need intensive follow-up and health care, including at least (24) prisoners and detainees who suffer from cancer and tumors of varying degrees. And Musa Soufan, Ahmed Abu Awwad, and Ali Al-Hroub).


While the number of administrative detainees reached about (970), until the end of February.


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On Earth Day.. 4,800 prisoners are languishing in the Israeli prisons