Ramullah, West Bank (APP) – Israel is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange of Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Saturday, which has stopped the war but has stopped the war. Whose future is uncertain.
Israel views security prisoners as terrorists, while Palestinians see them as libertarians who resist decades -long military occupation.
Almost every Palestinian is a friend or family member who has been jailed at some time for militant attacks. Or fewer crimes Like throwing rocks, protests or memberships in a prohibited political group. For a few months or years, no trials are held, known as administrative detention, which says Israel says it is needed to stop the attacks and prevent sensitive intelligence.
Eighteen of those released on Saturday were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 54 were sentenced to prolonged charges of being involved in deadly attacks against Israelis. Seven of those committed to the most serious crimes will be transferred to Egypt before the deportation.
Among those released include 111 Palestinians who were attacked South Israel after Hamas on October 7, 2023, which mobilized the war. They have been detained without trial.
Take a look at some of the famous Palestinian prisoners issued since the implementation of this regard on January 19.
Iyad Abu Shakhadam
Abu Shakhadam, 49, was sentenced to 18 in prison between 2000 and 2005, or dozens of Israelis involved in the Hamas attacks during the Palestinian uprising.
The most notorious of the attacks was in a dual suicide bombing that blew up two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beir Shiba in 2004, killing 16 Israelis, including a 4 -year -old child, and injuring more than 100 others. In an interview with Arab media, he described his militancy as a desire to avenge his brother’s murder by Israeli security forces in 2000.
In November 2004, Abu Shakhad was fleeing for weeks before his arrest in his hometown of Hebron in the West Bank, after firing with Israeli security forces in which he was shot 10 times.
During his 21 -year imprisonment, his family said, he finished high school and obtained a certificate for courses in psychology.
Jamal El
A prominent Hamas politician in the occupied West Bank, 61 -year -old Al -Tauel, has spent nearly two decades in Israeli prison and beyond, alleging that he has assisted in planning a suicide bombing.
Recently, the Israeli army has arrested Al -Tauel 2021, saying that they had participated in the violent riots with Hamas political activists in the semi -autonomous Palestinian Authority and Hamas’s central rival seat Ramullah.
Since then he has been without charge or trial. After his arrest, he went on a hunger strike for more than three weeks to protest his administrative detention.
In the early 2000s, during a circle of Al -Taoel in the Israeli prison, he launched a successful election campaign from custody to become the mayor of Albara, a city on the West Bank, an end to Ramullah.
Since 2007, US judicial documents filed by the families of Israelis who were killed during the second anti -inflammatory, suggests that al -Tauel as the chairman of the Al -Islam Charitable Society, a front -collecting money for Hamas. He served for many years. The case has been accused of recruiting a Hamas militant in 2001 for a suicide bombing, targeting a crowd of pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing 11 people. –
His daughter, 32 -year -old journalist Bashara al -Tauel, was among the dozens of women and teenagers who were released in the first round of prisoners on January 19.
After being released on Saturday, he and another prisoner were immediately taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
Mohammad Halabi
The Palestinian manager of the Gaza Branch of the World Vision, a major organization of Christian Aid, Was arrested in 2016 and charged In a high -level issue, tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, which criticized rights groups. He was released on February 1.
Both 47 -year -old Al -Halabi and World Vision Denied these charges And in the free investigation, no evidence of wrongdoing was found. An independent audit has found that Al -Halabi has imposed internal control and ordered employees to avoid anyone on suspicion of Hamas relations.
Rights groups say that al -Halabi was denied a fair and transparent trial, as he and the global point of view had no opportunity to review the evidence against them. UN experts say that al -Halabi was questioned for 50 days without access to a lawyer. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Israel has attributed closed hearings to sensitive security information.
Severe influence
On June 5, 2002, a 44 -year -old Amori, from the northwestern Bank city of Jeanin, was arrested on charges of his alleged role in producing a powerful car bomb bursting with a passenger bus, in which 17 Israelis were arrested. The death was known as Magido. Junction suicide bombing.
The second attack took place in northern Israel. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Amori was sentenced to life imprisonment for 20 years. He was among those who moved to Egypt on February 1 and was released in exile.
Zakaria Zubedi
Zakaria Zubedi There is a prominent leader and theater director of the militants Dreadfully trapped In 2021, the Palestinians across the Middle East were pleased and stunned the Israeli security establishment.
Zubedi was a senior militant in the brigade of Shahada Shahada at a civilian refugee camp in the West Bank. After the second infiltration in 2006, it laid the foundation of a theater in Jenn to describe it as a cultural resistance to Israel. The Freedom Theater has presented everything from Shakespeare to Standup comedy to the residential dramas.
In 2019, Zubedi had once again arrested him after working in prison for attacks in the early 2000s, which Israel had again arrested for his alleged involvement in the shootings attacks. I was targeted by Israeli settlers’ buses but no injuries were received.
Zobi, who was released in the West Bank on January 30, was waiting for a trial in jail. He denied the allegations, saying that he had abandoned the militancy to focus on his political activity after the infidelity.
In 2021, he and five other prisoners were left out of more security in northern Israel. After all six days he was recovered.
Mohammad Abu Warda
During the second infiltration, a Hamas militant, Abu Warda, helped organize a series of suicide bombings, killing more than 40 people and injuring more than 100 others. Israel was arrested by Israel in 2002, and in the longest sentences so far, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
As a young student, Abu Warda joined Hamas after the assassination of Israeli, Israel, Yahya Ayash, as a young student, in 1996.
Palestinian authorities said that Aboda had helped recruit suicide bombers, whose attacks target civilian areas in Israeli cities, killing several people in the early 2000s.
Abu Warda was released and deported on January 30.
Mohammad Erida, 42
A activist in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Riraj, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of several crimes returning to another. According to the Israeli prison service, some charges included an explosive device and an attempt to murder.
He was granted an extraordinary jail to escape in 2021, when he and five other detainees, including Zubedi, used spoons to tunnel one of Israel’s safest prisons. They remained widely for the day before they were caught.
I from a poorly and politically active family Jenn, occupied the west bank in the NorthAraj has three brothers and a sister who spent all years in Israeli prisons.
On January 25, Ramullah was welcomed as a hero of a sect, while the family and fans harmonized it, some “Freedom Tunnel!” Say the slogan. With reference to it Jail brake.
Mohammad Odia, 52, Wael Qasim, 54, and Wasim Abbasi, 48
The three men belong to the Sloan neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and stand in the ranks of Hamas. During the second infiltration, he was held responsible for the deadly attacks, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002.
He was accused of planning a suicide bombing in a crowded pool hall near Tel Aviv in 2002, killing 15 people. Later this year, he planned a bombing at Hebrew University, killing nine people, including five US students. Israel described Odia, who was then working as a painter at the university, as the architect of the attack.
The three were shifted to Egypt on January 25. His family lives in Jerusalem and said he would join him in exile.
Mohammad Al -Tos, 67
Palestinian officials said that 67 -year -old Altos had won a long time for Israeli imprisonment until last week’s release.
For the first time in 1985, he was arrested while fighting Israeli forces along the Jordanian border, a worker at Fatah Party spent 39 years behind bars. In fact, from the West Bank city of Jerusalem, he was one of the deported prisoners on January 25.
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