Families of Palestinian prisoners await an exchange deal. Oscillating between hope and fear is the condition of hundreds of families of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Palestinian resistance in Gaza requires that the name of prisoner Abdullah Barghouti, who completed his 21st year in Israeli prisons on Tuesday, be included in exchange deal with Israel to complete it. The family of prisoner Thaer Hammad knows with certainty that his release will only be part of a prisoner deal in which the Palestinian resistance imposes its conditions.