The report was about the most ancient Palestinian prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, where it mentioned that the process of involvement in the prisons for a group of Palestinian prisoners for decades, and the attempt to separate them from their communities, have imposed on these prisoners and families long suffering experiences as a result of absence of rights and justice.
FHI said: “the Israeli occupation forces through the policy of long prison sentences against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners want to weaken the spirit of the Palestinian community in order to prevent the Palestinians from asking for their rights.”
It mentioned the names of twelve Palestinian and Arab prisoners who have spent in prison periods ranging between 24 and 31 years isolated from the external world, and some of them were prevented from meeting their families for years.
“We have chosen a group of the oldest Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the occupation prisons, to display samples of their lives and some of endure of their families, this is done in order to get more knowledge and awareness about the suffering of these people, as a result of the long and unjust sentences issued by the courts of the occupation forces against them,” FHI said.
It stated examples from the lives of these prisoners and the way of their detention, through the witness of their families, in addition to description of their miserable circumstances that force the prisoners to live inside the prison cells, and the suffering of their families resulted from their separation from family members who are in the prisons, and mentioned some stories of loyalty and fulfillment from the wives of the prisoners to their husbands and families. Many of them spent their ages in raising their children and waiting for the return of their husbands, and have succeeded greatly in raising their children where a lot of sons and daughters have finished their studies in schools and universities with excellent degrees.
Regarding the health status of the prisoners, FHI emphasized that, many of these prisoners are suffering from diseases and are subjected to medical neglecting.
The report described the feelings and emotions of the prisoners and their families when a happy or sad occasion occurs in the family, where sadness renews in either occasion as a result of the absence of the prisoners.
