Tag: Prisoner Swap

  • An interview with Amer Ahmad Al-Qwasmah, former prisoner

    An interview with Amer Ahmad Al-Qwasmah, former prisoner

    by Alistair George 23 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Amer Ahmad Al-Qwasmah, 45, was released on 18 October 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange deal that saw 477 Palestinian prisoners (with 550 to be released at a further time, thought to be in December) in exchange for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli…

  • Palestinian woman struggles for proper medical treatment

    Palestinian woman struggles for proper medical treatment

    by Wahed Rejol 14 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In 2004 Amal Jamal was sentenced to 12 years in Israeli prison. A year later the Palestinian woman from Nablus was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Today from a hospital in Nablus she awaits a decision from Israel authorities that will determine whether she…

  • “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    by Shahd Abusalama 13 November 2011  | Palestine from My Eyes In a nice restaurant overlooking Gaza’s beach, beneath a full moon with a beautiful halo surrounding it, I sat with my new friends who recently were released from Israeli prisons. Their freedom was restricted by Israel’s inhumane rules, including indefinitely deportation from the West…

  • Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    by Joe Catron 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Palestinian Scouts and their families rallied in the Gaza YMCA Friday afternoon to honor former political prisoner Christian Al-Bandak and welcome him to Gaza. Al-Bandak, who donned a Scout neckerchief to receive a commemorative plaque, is one of 477 prisoners already released by Israel…

  • Prisoner release: Palestinian narratives

    Fadi Kawasmi 9 November 2011 | PASSIA Below is an abridged transcript of a talk given at PASSIA (Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs ) Round table on ‘Prisoner Release – Palestinian Narratives’ on 31 October 2011 by Fadi Kawasmi, a lawyer who specializes in working with Palestinian prisoners. “In order to…