Since 1967, the occupation forces have arrested more than one million Palestinians, and 7,559 prisoners are still behind bars, <> of whom are sentenced to life imprisonment.
The strangeness of Israeli prisons does not stop at the families of children, 500-700 of whom are arrested every year, and about two hundred of them are still behind bars today, or administrative detention without charge or trial, under which about 2070 prisoners are held, but also with the arrest of bodies and refusal to release them until the end of their “sentences”!
One of the oddities of Israeli prisons is the issuance of prison sentences that exceed the normal human lifespan, by sentencing many prisoners to life imprisonment, such as Marwan Barghouti, who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 5 life sentences and 40 years, and Ibrahim Hamed, who was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment 54 times!
As for the owner of the largest sentence in the history of the Israeli occupation, he is the prisoner Abdullah Barghouti, who was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 67 life imprisonment, but this period seems short when compared to the completion of the sentence issued against him, as the Israeli court sentenced him to 5200 years in prison as well!
Therefore, the file of the owners of life sentences was one of the most important files negotiated by the Palestinian resistance in the prisoner exchange deals it concludes with the Israeli occupation.
On the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and how they are treated and subjected to, colleague Elia Gharbia, from the AJ+ team, reviews recent figures, information and important details about this pivotal issue.
