Israel Prisoner Releases
Updated 2024-07-25
2024-07-15 Freed by Hamas from Israel’s jails – The Grayzone reports ournalist Jeremy Loffredo travels to the Dheishe Refugee Camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank to meet Rawda Abu Ajamieh, a woman who was jailed for her activism, and released in exchange for Israeli captives as part of the December 2023 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel. Ajamieh describes the harrowing conditions prisoners experienced after October 7, when their Israeli jailers embarked on a revenge spree of beatings and sadistic punishments, and the jubilation of experiencing freedom.
Loffredo also speaks to Tala Nasser of the Addameer Prisoner Support NGO, which has been blacklisted by the Israeli government as a “terrorist organization.” Nasser details testimony collected by Addameer of horrific abuses, including sexual assault, by Israeli prison authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZu18Vvwy2g
2023-11-27 Updates from Electronic Intifada 33 Palestinians – 30 children and three women – were released by the Israel Prison Service and an additional 200 trucks have delivered aid to Gaza, as per the agreement signed between Hamas and Israel. According to Haaretz, “Israel police warned the families of Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails as part of the exchange deal with Hamas not to celebrate the return of their loved ones.” The families of the released Palestinian children were summoned by police to issue the warning, Haaretz added. https://electronicintifada.net/updates
2023-11-27 Police warn families of freed Palestinians not to celebrate their release The Israel police has warned the families of Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails as part of the exchange deal with Hamas not to celebrate the return of their loved ones. Ahead of the release, police summoned the families of prisoners to issue the warning.
In addition, police prevented journalists from approaching the Sheikh Jarrah home of Nafuz Jad Araf Hamad, who is among those Palestinians expected to be released, and is preventing the media from covering her arrival.
[MEK Note: This has been contested by Palestinian Sources] Hamad was jailed after stabbing and seriously wounding an Israeli woman who was walking in the street with her five children in December 2021. Hamad was sentenced to 12 years in prison earlier this month. https://archive.vn/ZY7IH#selection-467.0-469.68
2023-11-27 CNN Correspondent Reveals Truth About Israel Treatment of Prisoners being released by Israel involves censorship, threats against celebration and Isolation . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3NkiV7JwA
2023-11-27 Israel Releases Palestinian Child Prisoners! As part of the recent hostage swap with Hamas, Israeli authorities released dozens of prisoners, many of whom are or were children at the time of their arrest. Unbeknownst to most westerners, Israel routinely arrests Palestinian children and then subjects them to solitary confinement, physical and sexual abuse and other deprivations — this according to Save the Children.
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger, along with Due Dissidence’s Keaton Weiss, discuss Israeli propaganda about its treatment of Palestinians and how long American politicians can continue to spread these lies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRVPZ9Cics
2023-11-26 78 children and women prisoners embrace freedom amid extremely difficult detention conditions Since Friday evening, Israeli occupation authorities have released 78 child prisoners and detainees who have spent varying periods within the occupation’s prisons. This came after a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas in Gaza as part of a truce agreement. It is expected that the occupation authorities will gradually release a total of 150 male and female prisoners from the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem during the days of the truce, in exchange for the release of several Israeli prisoners in Gaza. In the past few days, 30 female prisoners have been released, including four administrative detainees, and 14 prisoners serving varied sentences, the highest is the released prisoner Shorouq Dwayyat, sentenced to 16 years. Among those released were also several injured prisoners, including Israa al-Ja’abees, who suffers severe burns, and Fatima Shaheen, who lost the ability to walk after being shot by the occupation forces.
Regarding children, the occupation authorities released 48 child prisoners in the past two days, among them the injured child prisoner Wisam Tamimi, who had been shot in the head few days before his arrest. The Israeli prison service (IPS) has practiced deliberate medical neglect and assaulted him during detention, and he is still under trial. Additionally, seven children under arbitrary administrative detention were released, and it is also expected to release the child Mohammad Abu Qutaish, who is serving a 15-year sentence, which is the highest sentence among the children, in the coming days.
The Israeli forces deliberately assaulted the prisoners and their families during the prisoner release operations. They delayed the release of prisoners until late at night, and they released the child prisoners wearing clothes that did are too big for their size, and some of them were barefoot. Additionally, the clothes did not provide adequate protection from the cold weather. The forces also used sound bombs, gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition in front of Ofer Prison while families were gathered, awaiting the release of their loved ones.
Moreover, the Israeli forces raided the homes of the prisoners before their release in occupied Jerusalem, preventing them from any signs of celebration upon reuniting with their sons and daughters. The families were summoned to the Mascobiyyeh interrogation center and subjected to arbitrary conditions that prohibited gatherings, banned marches and fireworks, and prevented chanting slogans. The Israeli forces also assaulted journalists who were present at the homes of the detainees in Jerusalem, by physically assaulting and expelling them, prohibiting them from media coverage. https://addameer.org/news/5232
2023-11-26 Updates from Electronic Intifada 39 Palestinians – women and children – have been released from Israeli prison each of the first three days in accordance with the prisoner exchange agreement. The 117 are mostly children, part of a cohort that totals some 250 children and women imprisoned in Israel, more than 80 percent of whom are being held without formal charges against them, held in what Israel calls administrative detention. There are more than 7,000 political prisoners held in Israeli jails and prisons, according to Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners rights group. https://electronicintifada.net/updates
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