570 prisoners are serving life sentences behind bars
Families of Palestinian prisoners: the exchange deal is our only hope for the release of our sons
Alaa was deprived of his captive father, Ayman Al-Sharbati, since childhood.
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The family of the captive Hajja has high hopes for the exchange deal.
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The Phosphos family is deprived of its four captive sons.
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Every day, after the sun rises, Hajja Umm Nafez asks her son Mustafa’s argument about the latest circulating news, regarding talks about reaching an agreement on the exchange of Palestinian prisoners behind Israeli bars, whether those published by local daily newspapers or reported by news websites.
Al-Haja (Um Nafez), a resident of the town of Burqa in the governorate of Nablus in the northern West Bank, does not stop asking this question around the clock, perhaps finding the news she has been looking for and has been waiting for for 19 years, which is the completion of a new exchange deal, which includes the name of her son (Salim), The detainee has been inside the prisons of the occupation since 2002, similar to the Wafaa Al-Ahrar deal, which was accomplished by the Palestinian resistance on October 18, 2011.
Salim Hajjah, aged 51, was sentenced by the occupation to life imprisonment 16 times, in addition to 39 years. The prisoner Wissam Abbasi from Jerusalem (26 life imprisonment and 40 years), the prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouti from the city of Ramallah in the West Bank (67 life terms), the prisoner Ibrahim Hamed from Ramallah (57 life terms), and the prisoner Abdel Nasser Atallah Issa from the city of Nablus is sentenced to life imprisonment twice.
renewed hopes
The hopes of the families of the Palestinian prisoners to be released and freed from the shackles of the Israeli jailer, especially those with high life sentences, are just around the corner, in light of the publication of media leaks about negotiations taking place to conclude a new exchange deal “Wafa Al-Ahrar II”, to free the prisoners from the occupation’s prisons, in exchange for soldiers Israelis captured by the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the "Hamas" movement.
The families of the Palestinian prisoners eagerly look forward to the moment when their souls breathe the breeze of freedom, as their hands embrace the bodies of those who have been forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Israeli occupation.
Umm Nafez Hajja told "Emirates Today" in an optimistic voice: "In every prayer I pray to God and my eyes shed tears, that I be able to embrace my son (Salim), and spend his life in our house, as a result of the high judgments issued by the occupation against him, and today, God willing, hope is soon In light of the talk of a new deal to exchange our heroic prisoners inside the occupation prisons.”
On the other hand, Mustafa Hajja explains that the arrest of his captive brother in 2002 was the third, spending 26 years of his life inside the cells of the Israeli jailer.
He says: "My brother (Saleem) was arrested by the occupation 80 days after his wedding, and his wife was pregnant, to give birth to her child (Omar), who was deprived of his father while he was a fetus. Today he became a young man who spent years deprived of the warmth of his father's embrace."
He added: "Today, after talking about indirect negotiations to conclude a new exchange deal, our hopes have revived that (Salim) will return to us again, to embrace his young son (Omar), and to complete his life's journey between his parents, brothers and wife."
Waiting for father's return
And by moving to the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, the family of the Jerusalemite prisoner, Ayman Al-Sharbati, is anxiously awaiting good news that will ease the pain of separation, which has lasted 23 years, to free her captive son in the second exchange deal, which is reported by the media.
Al-Maqdisi prisoner has been behind bars since 1998, and the occupation has sentenced him to life imprisonment, to be deprived of seeing his four children, the youngest of whom is Yara, who was born several months after his arrest.
(Alaa), the eldest son of the captive al-Sharbati, confirms that completing a new deal to free Palestinian prisoners from the prisons of the occupation is the only way to release his father, so that he can live under him and enjoy his tenderness with his brothers, after he was forcibly deprived of that when he was a young child.
Alaa Al-Sharbati, 30, says: “My father is serving a life sentence, which means that it is impossible to release him at any time in the future, but only a new exchange deal has the key to relief, so that my father and the Palestinian prisoners, especially those with high life sentences, breathe the breeze of freedom. After lean years they spent in the prisons of the occupier.”
The 54-year-old prisoner, Al-Sharbati, was prevented from meeting his parents behind bars, and the occupation also prevented him from saying goodbye to them after they died, as he is serving a life sentence.
Four brothers are prisoners
In the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank, the sixty-year-old Fawzia Al-Fasfous does not stop crying all the time, due to the deprivation of her four sons, who have been serving varying sentences inside the prisons of the occupation for 21 years.
Umm Akram al-Fosfous says: “In the year 2000, my wish became to meet my sons and meet them under one roof and table. Hafez and Kayed, whose health has deteriorated as a result of his open hunger strike, since last July.
Despite the cruelty of distance and deprivation from her captive sons who face the most horrific forms of torture and neglect, she clings to a glimmer of hope, in reaching an agreement that leads to a new deal to liberate the Palestinian prisoners.
Hajja (Um Akram) continues by saying: "The occupation is intransigent in the face of releasing Palestinian prisoners, and detains them in tragic circumstances."
• Salim Hajja, 51 years old, was sentenced by the occupation to life imprisonment 16 times, in addition to 39 years. He is one of the 570 Palestinian prisoners serving life imprisonment, the term of which is 99 years, according to the occupation prisons law.
• Fawzia Al-Fasfous does not stop crying, as she has been deprived of her four sons, who have been serving varying sentences inside the occupation prisons for 21 years.
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