JENIN, Saturday, October 08, 2022 (WAFA) – Yaaqob Mohammad Qadri, a Palestinian political prisoner serving a life sentence in Israeli prisons, completes today 19 years behind Israeli prison bars, according to a prisoner advocacy group.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Qadri, who hails from the village of Bir el-Basha in the north of the occupied West Bank, was arrested on this day in 2003, and was sentenced to two life sentences and an additional 35 years in prison for his activism in the resistance of the Israeli occupation.
Qadri is one of six Palestinian freedom fighter who in September 2021 tunnelled out of the high-security Israeli prison of Gilboa, before he was recaptured two days later.
Like many Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Qadri 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, PPS said.
The Israeli occupation authorities are currently incarcerating more than 4,500 Palestinian and Arab prisoners for resisting its occupation of their homeland.
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