JENIN, Friday, April 5, 2019 (WAFA) – Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli jails Thabet Azmi Mardawi, 43, completes today 17 years behind Israeli prison bars, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society.
Mardawi, who comes from the town of Arraba in the occupied West Bank, was arrested on April 5, 2002 during a major Israeli military crackdown on Jenin in the northern West Bank, and was sentenced to 21 life sentences and 40 years in jail for resisting the Israeli occupation.
He has been denied family visits at many times by Israeli prison authorities. Mardawi is suffering various health diseases, including a disc in the back, for which he is in need of a catheterization, PPS director in Jenin, Muntaser Sammur, said.
Israeli authorities are still incarcerating more than 6,000 Palestinian and Arab prisoners for resisting its occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as the Golan Heights.
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