Tag: Prisoner Swap
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Photos: Gaza children hold march and candlelight vigil to free Ahmad Sa’adat
19th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinian children marched in Gaza Friday evening before holding a candlelight vigil outside the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). The event was the first in a global week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and other Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Sa’adat, an…
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West Bank couple, deported to Gaza, recount difficult years in Israeli prison
by Joe Catron 30 January 2012 | The Electronic Intifada “This is the life of Palestinian people,” Obada Saed Bilal said one recent morning. “If I hadn’t been detained, I would have been wounded or martyred. I was in detention for over nine years, but I still resist. My marriage and university studies are my…
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International Women’s Peace Service meet with prisoner released in Shalit deal
26 December 2011 | International Women’s Peace Service The 18th of December was a day of reunion and celebration for many in Palestine. Following a tense wait, several delays and tear-gas attacks by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on their waiting families, 550 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails to be reunited with their families…
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Prisoner release: The number game of Israel
19 December 2011 | The Raging Palestinian Yesterday marked the so called completion of the prisoner swap agreement, which commenced on October 18, 2011, when Gilad Shalit was released for a total of 1,027 Palestinians to be released from Israeli prisons in two separate waves. Yet it must be noted that the numbers do not…
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Further violence against prisoners as the second stage of the swap deal begins
by Shahd Abusalama 16 December 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes As the second stage of the swap deal begins, Israeli jailers escalate their violations of the simplest rights of the Palestinian political prisoners behind bars and exercise more violence against them. Such are the typical actions of typical Zionist soldiers. A statement I have…
