Israeli authorities today re-detained two Palestinian prisoners, moments after their release from Israeli jails, where they spent six years for resisting the occupation.
Local sources said prisoner Mahmoud Abu Hadwan, 26, from Bab al-Magharbeh area adjacent to al-Aqsa mosque, and Omar Khaled al-Rajbi, 28, from Jerusalem’s Old City were detained shortly after their release today from Israeli jails where they were incarcerated for the past six years. They were taken to al-Maskobiya detention and interrogation center.
The prisoners were detained in December 2015; they were subjected to maltreatment by the prison authorities, including being subjected to punishments, held in isolation, and deprived of family visits.
There are 4650 Palestinian prisoners currently incarcerated in Israeli jails, including 200 minors, 40 women, 550 detainees suffering from acute health conditions and subjected to deliberate medical negligence by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), and around 520 others held in administrative detention without charge or trial and based on secret evidence not available to any party except the military judge, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission.
The commission said 544 of the resistance fighters are serving one or more life sentences with one of them, Abdullah Barghouti sentenced to a record 67 life terms.
A report recently issued by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that 226 prisoners have died while in detention since the start of the Israeli occupation in June 1967, including 75 who died as a result of “pre-meditated murder”, 73 died during torture, seven were shot directly and killed, and 71 who died due to medical negligence.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency