Israel has released this Saturday at 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second exchange for hostages kidnapped in Gaza by Hamasamong which are the longest prisoner, a child under 15 and different high profile captives who carried out attacks during the second intifada (2000-2005).
Of the 200 prisoners released (50 for each of the soldier women who have left Gaza this Saturday), 120 completed perpetual chainswhile another 80, elevated convictions.
Sources in Gaza confirmed that Two dozen of the released arrived at the strip through the passage of Kerem Shalom (in the southeast end of the enclave). Another 70 were deported to Egypt and the rest released in the West Bank (more than one hundred) and a few to Jerusalem.
Participants in attacks of the second intifada
- Mohamed al Arida: Recognized for being one of the “prisoners of the Tunnel de la Libertad”, as described by the Palestinian media to the group of six people who escaped from the Israeli prison of Gilboa, of maximum security, on September 6, 2021. He was in prison for having participated in attacks during the second intifada as a member of the Palestinian Islamic jihad. He had a sentence of three perpetual chains and additional 20 years.
- Tabet sailor: About 50, it was a high position of Islamic jihad in Yenín, a city in northern Bank that precisely since last Tuesday is the subject of an anti -terrorist macro -spot of the Israeli army. He was imprisoned in 2002 and sentenced to 21 perpetual and 40 years of additional years for participating in attacks that were charged with the lives of 20 people (civil and military) and wounded another 150. Among them, four suicidal attacks on buses, a shooting, the Detonation of a car bomb and an explosion.
- Wael Qasem: Qasem was the leader of Hamas in Silwan, Barrio de Jerusalem Este, the Palestinian part of the city that Israel has occupied since 1967 and was annexed in 1980. It was sentenced to 35 perpetual chains for participating in the attacks of Café Moment and the Hebrew University In the city, which were collected from 11 and 9 people respectively, and that of the Sheffield Club, where 15 people died and 50 were injured.
- Ashraf Zaghaiaar: He was part of Hamas and was arrested accused of participating in the suicide attack on Telnby Street of Tel Aviv, on September 19, 2002. A Palestinian detonated on a bus when he passed in front of the great synagogue of Tel Aviv, killing to six civilians and wounding 70 people.
- Nassim Zaatari: Belonging to the Qasam brigades, Hamas’s armed arm, Zaatari was sentenced to 24 life imprisonments. He was accused of transporting Raed Misk, perpetrator of the suicide attack on bus number 2 of Jerusalem on August 19, 2003, in which 23 people died and about 130 were injured.
Other outstanding prisoners
Among others, some indicated figures of this liberation batch are:
- Mohamed al tos: Natural of Bethlehem, to the south of Jerusalem, to TU had been in prison since 1985 sentenced to life imprisonment for his militancy in the Fatah secular movement. The Palestinian media speak of him as the “dean” of the Palestinian prisoners, since, with 69 years, he was the longest prisoner.
- Said al Saadi: Al Saadi was the prisoner of Yenín who has spent more time between bars, according to the Palestinian media (a total of 36 years, having been arrested in 1989). I was sentenced to two life imprisonments for participating in attacks during the first Intifada (1987-1993).
- Wael Jaghoub: 49 years and from Beita, south of Nablus, was a regional leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Since 2001 he was in prison for a life sentence, and during his years in Israeli prisons he became a renowned leader of the Palestinian prisoners movement.