JENIN, Sunday, March 09, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli detention Anas Rashed Hethnawi completes today 17 years behind Israeli prison bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

Hethnawi, who comes from the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, was arrested on this day in 2004, and was sentenced 25 years in prison for his activism in the armed resistance against the Israeli occupation.

Like many Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Hethnawi was held in solitary confinement and denied family visitation several times by the Israeli occupation authorities as a punishment against him and his entire family.

The Israeli occupation authorities are still incarcerating more than 4,500 Palestinian and Arab prisoners for resisting its occupation of their homeland.

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