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]
Maher Younes - Israeli Arab terrorist who kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980 together with his cousin Karim Younes. Younes was originally sentenced to life in prison, but Israeli President Shimon Peres reduced his sentence in 2012. Younes is serving a 40-year sentence. Younes was released from prison on Jan. 19, 2023.
Muhammad Al-Tous - Palestinian terrorist and Fatah member who was the commander of a terrorist cell that attacked 5 civilian buses in September 1985, wounding 16 passengers. He also issued the command to murder Zalman Abolnik in March 1984 and Meir Ben Yair and Michal Cohen in July 1985, and took part in the murder of Mordechai Suissa and Edna Harari in October 1985. Al-Tous is serving life in prison.
The Shalit Exchange - In October 2011, the Israeli government agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian terrorist prisoners including murderers, in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.
Nael, Fakhri, and Omar Barghouti – Palestinian terrorist relatives and Fatah and Hamas members who stabbed and murdered Israeli bus driver Mordechai Yekuel, 27, after stopping his bus by pretending to be hitchhikers north of Ramallah on Jan. 29, 1978. All three were sentenced to life, but Omar was released in the Jibril Exchange in May 1985. Nael and Fakhri were released in the Shalit prisoner exchange deal in 2011. Nael was arrested again in 2014 for violating the terms of his release by offering Hamas to serve as its minister of prisoners' affairs, and is serving a life sentence plus an additional 18 years. Omar was later rearrested, held under administrative detention, and released; he has served an accumulated total of 26 years in prison.