Jan 25, 2025, 3:55 PM

Longest serving prisoner from Jenin to be released

Longest serving prisoner from Jenin to be released

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) – The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner from the city of Jenin in the West Bank will be among those who will be released by the Zionist Israeli regime in the prisoners swap later on Saturday.

Raed Al-Saadi is one of 30 prisoners detained since before the Oslo Accords, with 15 Palestinians serving more than 25 years in Israeli prisons.

Al-Saadi, a 49-year-old native of the village of Silat al-Harithiya, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, was detained on Aug. 28, 1989, according to Ma’an News Agency.

He was sentenced to two life sentences in prison for carrying out attacks during the First Intifada which led to the deaths of Israeli soldiers and settlers.

Al-Saadi is the longest held Palestinian prisoner from the Jenin district. He was supposed to be released as part of a prisoner swap deal in conjunction with US-mediated peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2014, along with a number of fellow Palestinian prisoners held since before the 1993 Oslo Accords.

According to Palestinian prisoners rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of July, 458 of whom were serving life sentences.

MNA

News ID 227416

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