RAMALLAH, Saturday, July 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Palestinian freedom fighter Ahmad Abu Jaber, 64, from inside Israel, entered today his 38th year in the Israeli occupation prisons, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

It said Abu Jaber was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to life in prison for resisting the Israeli occupiers.

The PPS said Abu Jaber is one of the oldest freedom fighters detained since before the signing of the Oslo Accords, whose number today is 22 prisoners after the recent release of Bashir al-Khatib after he spent 35 years behind bars, and the oldest of them today is the freedom fighter Mohammad al-Tous, who has been detained since 1985. Alongside them are 11 prisoners who were arrested before the signing of the Oslo Accords and liberated in a prisoners’ exchange deal between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups, but were re-arrested in 2014 and their prison terms reinstated, most notably the freedom fighter Nael Barghouti, whose total years in prison amounted to about 44 years.

Abu Jaber, said the PPS, is the father of three children when he was arrested, the youngest of them was a month old. His mother died during his incarceration.

M.K.