JENIN, Monday, April 13, 2020 (WAFA) – A Palestinian prisoner from the north of the West Bank has completed 18 years in Israeli jails, according to Muntaser Samoor, director of the Jenin branch of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

Ahmad Ali Abu Khader, from Silat al-Dahr village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, is serving a life sentence for resisting the Israeli occupation.

Samoor told WAFA that Abu Khader was regularly denied family visits and often held in solitary confinement. His brothers and sisters were also detained several times and released.

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