Prisoner statistics from January 2023
Headline: “23 of the veteran prisoners are still behind bars”
“The [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club said that 23 of the veteran prisoners who were arrested before the [1993] Oslo Accords are still imprisoned after the release of fighter Maher Younes (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 together with an accomplice), who served his entire sentence that stood at 40 years in the occupation’s prisons.
In a statement yesterday, Thursday [Jan. 18, 2023], the Prisoners’ Club added that the most veteran Palestinian prisoner at the moment is Muhammad Al-Tous (i.e., Fatah terror leader, involved in murder of 5) from Hebron, who has been imprisoned since 1985.
The club noted that 10 of the 48 prisoners who were released in the 2011 [Shalit prisoner exchange] deal and rearrested in 2014 (see note below -Ed.) are from among the veteran prisoners who were arrested before the Oslo Accords, the most prominent of whom is prisoner Nael Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1 together with accomplices), who has served a total of 43 years.
It should be noted that more than 340 prisoners have served more than 20 years in the occupation’s prisons.”
[WAFA, official PA news agency, Jan. 19, 2023]