“I was psychologically prepared to arrest me at the moment of my release, but this resentment turned into one of the most beautiful blessings that I had in my life.” The prisoners of Jerusalem in Israeli prisons knew very well that they had to add a day or two to the date of their release as a precaution. This is how the freed Jerusalemite prisoner Malik Bkirat started (41 years), speaking to Al-Jazeera Net.

With a smile that did not fail, and did not escape his life, the Jerusalemite prisoner spoke about the occupation procedure that has been followed for years by arresting the prisoners of Jerusalem at the moment of their release from prisons, and transferring them to the "Al-Maskobiyya" investigation center, and trying to distract them by fabricating accusations to the prisoner and his family.

Malik is the latest in a convoy of freed Jerusalem prisoners who were subjected to this measure shortly after his release last week from the Negev desert prison.

Bakeirat says, while receiving Al-Jazeera Net at his family's home in the town of Sur Bahir (south of Jerusalem), that he was free for moments during which he was able to embrace his two brothers, and then he was taken immediately to the investigation center.

To find himself in front of the charges he had committed, and he had not actually freed from prison.

He added, "They accused me of preparing for a solemn celebration, and that during the families I contacted the outside to arrange the reception, and I told the investigator that I was still in prison, and I could not do that in the first place," Malik adds.

After an investigation that lasted 3 hours, the interrogator brought him a printed and sealed arrest warrant, which Bakerat believes has been prepared in advance.

Because this procedure has become routine for the occupation intelligence towards the prisoners of Jerusalem, and it is reported that he told the interrogator, "I have been transferred from prison to prison, and what you do does not affect me. Do whatever you want, so you extend my detention for a day or two .. You punish my mother and daughter, and do not punish me at all; Because I have been deprived of my freedom for 19 years. "

Malek Bakeirat: After my release, the occupation accused me of preparing for a majestic celebration (Al-Jazeera)

A meeting in the cell after a two-decade separation


instead of releasing Bakirat after interrogating him, and making sure that the charges against him were invalid, his father, the Deputy Director of the Islamic Endowments in Jerusalem, Sheikh Najeh Bkirat, was arrested, and they met in the same cell after the father was denied a visit to his son in prisons during the last five years .

And he says, "An exceptional scene was my meeting with my father, because 19 years ago I only went to the courts in the official clothes of the prisoners of brown color, and on the day of my liberation I wore civilian clothes, and my father came to Maskobia wearing a new formal suit that he bought specially for the day of my liberation. We sat and talked for long hours, and I praised my Lord that He brought me together on the last night in prison, which I consider a blessing and one of the most beautiful nights of my life. "

Sheikh Najeh Bakeirat, despite the arrest of his son at the moment of his release, gave the same description to that night, and said that he preferred prison over liberation after his refusal to sign a condition stipulating not to receive well-wishers at his home, despite his agreement to some conditions such as not organizing a march to receive prisoners and raising party flags, And the Palestinian flag;

Because this violates security in the occupied city, according to the claim of the occupation.

Bakirat, the father, says, "I told the investigator, I will open my house to receive all the well-wishers, so he immediately commented, so you are proud of what your son has done!"

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he asserts that "the prisoners have their dignity, and they cannot be accepted as being outcasts in society as the occupation wants them to."

The joy came late, and the dawn of freedom for Malik and his father dawned on the last day of last year.

But one hour after their liberation, the occupation re-arrested Sheikh Najeh Bakirat from his home, on the pretext that he had violated the quarantine procedures, and that a reception was held for his son in the yard of the house, and after hours he was released on bail and an arbitrary violation.

The freed Jerusalemite prisoner, Wassim Al-Jallad, was also arrested upon his release on charges of preparing for huge celebrations (Al-Jazeera)

The liberated prisoner of Jerusalem a year and a half ago, Wasim Al-Jallad, was awaiting his release at the moment of his release, and the same charges were brought against him for obtaining money from a terrorist party to prepare for the organization of huge celebrations.

He told Al-Jazeera Net, "They asked me to sign the conditions for not raising the Palestinian party flags, and I refused because I am not responsible for the actions of others, and they asked that my family be guardians of well-wishers to ensure that the flags are not raised, and I told them my family do not work as guards for the occupation .. Thus they refused to release me." And they transferred my case to the Magistrates Court and then to the Central Court. "

Trial and


bail Al-Jallad was released after he was brought before the two courts on a bail of 95,000 shekels (30,000 US dollars), in addition to preventing him from entering the city of Jerusalem for a period of 20 days, and not more than 15 people gathered inside his home.

About the harshness of this procedure, the executioner spoke: "Every prisoner dreams and imagines around the clock the moment of his release, who will be the first to see him and embrace him, and what will be the moment of his release from prison to freedom without restrictions .. Detention at the moment of release of the prisoner is a very harsh procedure for the families of the prisoner. From the same captive. "

The head of the Committee of the Families of Jerusalemite Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, told Al-Jazeera Net that the exiled Jerusalemite deputy, Sheikh Muhammad Abu Tir, was the first to be subjected to the detention procedure at the moment of his release, as he was kidnapped upon his release from the Nafha desert prison about 7 years ago, and he was released in front of the Al-Maskobiya Center in Jerusalem.

Continue according to Abu Asab to follow this procedure at a low pace;

But it increased dramatically 3 years ago, and the occupation is afflicting many of the released prisoners of Jerusalem, especially those who spent high sentences or those with influence and presence in the city.

Prisoners are usually released one or two days after this arrest.

However, with specific threats and conditions, including banning celebrations, deportation outside the borders of Jerusalem for weeks, and not speaking to the media.

Abu Asab believes that "the occupation seeks to fight any manifestation of joy, pride, or self-esteem, and repress the prisoners and their families, claiming that this harms Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem, and he is afraid of social encirclement around the prisoners in the city."

Amjad Abu Asab: The arrest of prisoners at the moment of their release increased in frequency 3 years ago (Al-Jazeera)

He discarded the freed prisoners


and the occupation targets, according to Abu Asab, the freed prisoners in some Jerusalem neighborhoods known for their social cohesion more than others, such as the Old City, Al-Issawiya and the Shuafat camp, considering that "the intelligence services fabricate stories from imagination and fabricate them accusations to the prisoners, to distract the joy of their families and their loved ones with their liberation no more."

He confirms that some of the arbitrary conditions were the deportation of the freed prisoner from the city of Jerusalem or preventing him from entering the West Bank, while some of them are deported to towns in the occupied interior, where they do not know anyone, or the imposition of house arrest on them.

And he concludes his speech to Al-Jazeera Net by saying that the apparent immediate goal of this procedure is to distress the joy of parents in the liberation of their children.

However, the most dangerous strategic goal is to program the Jerusalemite community to fear encircling the prisoners and reject them, and to besiege any national Palestinian activity in Jerusalem.

In some cases, the restrictions were not restricted to the freed prisoners and their families.

Rather, it extended to include the arrest of young men on charges of participating in a ceremony for the release of a prisoner, and the raising of party banners during it.