Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 08-10-2018
A 55-year-old Palestinian political prisoner from Umm al-Fahm city has been released after serving 30 years in an Israeli jail.
Mahmoud Jabarin who was arrested in 1988 at the age of 25 was set on Sunday morning after initially being handed a life sentence.
Jabarin is one of 28 Palestinian prisoners imprisoned by Israeli occupation authorities since before the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993.
Hundreds of people were seen gathering in the streets of Umm al-Fahm to celebrate the release of Jabarin.
Radio Islam’s Hafez Ebrahim Moosa says the release of Jabarin was a very emotional moment.
“Towards the end of his sentence, his mother was gravely ill. He was not allowed to speak to her at all and his mother did pass away indeed during his period of detention. So one of the first things he did after his release was to actually go to the grave of his mother.”
Hafez Moosa says hundreds of Palestinians have also been arrested using social media platforms like Facebook.
“There’s an Israeli cyber unit that monitors Palestinian social media output and many of these Palestinians have been arrested for what the Israeli’s call ‘incitement to terror’ which is quite a broad characterization and a lot of them have faced serious consequences, some from jail terms to house arrests, simply for what they put up on their Facebook feeds.”
Hafez Moosa says in Palestine the detention of Palestinians is more of a rule rather than an exception.
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