There are more than 6,000 Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons. And the only hope for many of them to get out is a prison exchange.
Demonstrations were held in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who went on hunger strikes in Israeli prisons in 2019 / Photo: AA Archive
“I haven’t stopped thinking - making up these hypothetical scenarios in my head,” she tells TRT World. But an exchange this time around appears unlikely as indicated by the Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan who told CNN that the issue of hostages is “not going to stop us, prevent us from doing what we need to do in order to secure the future of Israel.”
Since Hamas’s “Operation Al Aqsa Flood”, the Israeli Prison Administration has sealed off all the prisons, confiscated electronic devices from prison cells and barred lawyers and family members from meeting them.Yet many loved ones of the Palestinian prisoners are still holding on to some hope. That’s all they can do.Sixty-six-year-old Nael Barghouti, who hails from Kobar village near Ramallah, has spent around 43 years in Israeli detention. He was arrested in 1978 and imprisoned for life.
“He was given a 30-month sentence and I was hoping he’d walk out and the ordeal will end. But they kept extending his detention and ultimately gave him a life sentence again,” says Nafi.
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