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Two Palestinian freedom fighters complete 33 years in Israeli prisons

 

RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 24, 2019 (WAFA) – Two Palestinian freedom fighters complete today 33 years behind Israeli prison bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

Rushdi Hamdan Abu Mokh, 56, and Ibrahim Nayef Abu Mokh, 58, from Baqa al-Gharbiyeh, an Arab town inside Israel, were arrested on March 24, 1968 and each sentenced for life in prison for resisting the Israeli occupation.

They are among 12 Palestinians from inside Israel still held in prison for over three decades.

The 12 were supposed to be released after the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993 and again in an American-led deal in 2014, but in both instances Israel stalled in their release and kept them in prison.

M.K.

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