‘Less than Slaves’: The Palestinians that Israel detained in spite of the interruption of fire | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict

When gauze Participation Agreement Between Israel and Hamas, it was announced on January 15, Ghassan Alyeean says that his first feeling was relief that the mass murder of his compatriots could finally end.

Like everyone on the occupied West Coast, Alyeean was looking forward to celebrating the freedom of 90 Palestinian prisoners who were to be released in the coming days in exchange for three Israeli prisoners within the trial agreement.

But the next day-16. On January, three days before the truce came into force-Israeli soldiers, they carried out the executive home of Alyeean in Bethlehem and abducted their 22-year-old son Adam, who was supposed to sit university exams in the coming days.

“They took it for no reason,” Alyeean, 60, told Al Jazeera over the phone. “There was no way to defend him or my family.

“We are not saboties,” he said, which means that they do not resist or cause unrest.

Since the announcement of the cessation of fire, Israel has arrested at least 95 Palestinians in raids and at control points without clear reasons on the West Coast, according to Jenna Abu Hasna, researcher with Addameer, Palestinian organization of civil society, supervised the arrests and attachment occupied territory.

Many of them were arrested in a few days at the beginning of the ceasefire, which entered into force on January 19th.

The Palestinians’ mass prison is just one characteristic of Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Coast, which also includes the spread of illegal Israeli settlements and Mass murder, injury and seizure of civiliansAccording to groups of right -wing and family of prisoners.

“The situation we live through is really difficult at the moment. We are treated as slaves … or even less than slaves,” Alyeean said of his home.

Repression tool

Since Israel captured and occupied East Jerusalem, the Western coast and Gaza during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israel has Israel Closed about 800,000 Palestinians through occupied territory, According to the UN and B’TSelem, the Israeli human rights organization.

“[Mass incarceration] is part of the Apartheid regime, “she told Al Jazeera Sharon Parnes, a spokeswoman for B’tselema.

“It’s part of an attempt to make Palestinian life miserable to make them leave,” he added.

Abuhasna from Addameer also said that Israel has a record of remodeling dozens – sometimes hundreds of Palestinians who are published in “captured contracts”. Sometimes this happens immediately after it is agreed, sometimes months or even years later.

She headed to the captured job to return Israeli soldier Gilad Shalita, whom Hamas captured during a cross -border attack and returned to Gaza in 2005.

Five years later, Shalit was finally released in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar who helped orchestrate the attacks on October 7th and which is Israel killed in Gaza in October last year.

Three years later, Israel Homes executed and caught dozens of Palestinians who was released in the Shallita Agreement for no obvious reason.

Furthermore, it is Israel arrested and remodeled hundreds of people in The western coast since it concluded a contract with Hamas during a temporary tribute between the two warring parties in November 2023, Abuhasna said.

“Palestinian detention tactics, even during an agreement or when a prisoner exchange occurs, is nothing new,” she told Al Jazeera.

“[The Israeli] The occupation continues to delay Palestinians during the same day when prisoners were released and sometimes days or years after that, because it does an occupation: it violates international law, “she added.

Swing door

Despite their recent arrests, many Palestinian families have succeeded Welcome loved at home After the last trapped exchange on January 20th.

Mohamed Amro, a 55-year-old father of seven who lives in Hebron, said that he finally reunited with his 23-year-old daughter Janin, who was abducted from the family home during Israel on December 3, 2023-less than two months in Israel. After the start of the war in Gaza.

He still remembers the events of that painful night, who have become a common experience for many Palestine living under occupation on the west coast.

“The occupation soldiers broke down the door and broke inside, then abducted her from bed,” Amro told Al Jazeera.

Janinin was held in administrative detentionThe process of inherited from the colonial term of the United Kingdom in Palestine, which lasted from 1920 to 1948. During this time, the UK is often in prison in Palestinian critics and resistance fighters for no reason and without trial and secret charges.

When Israel acquired statehood after banishing Palestine from his country in 1948 – an event called Nakba, or a “disaster” – he integrated the procedure to try Palestine in military courts, not civilian courts, where Israelis are trying.

Amro said his daughter still did not know any charges against her and says she was undergoing extreme harassment in prison. “From the day she was taken to the day she was released, Janin slept and woke up every night on the cold floor. Her room was also freezing … And she was constantly scared,” he said.

Threats and intimidation

Amro was one of the hundreds of people waiting in the cold about 10 o’clock in Beitounia, west coast to Palestinian prisoners from captured exchange they were released.

The prisoners were supposed to be released at about 16:00 (14:00 GMT) at the late afternoon on January 19, but that was delayed the next morning until 2am (00:00 GMT). When he finally saw Janin stretching out, he immediately saw that she lost a lot of weight and that the dark bag was under her eyes from the lack of sleep.

Amro quickly took his daughter home, so she could rest and finally sleep after spending more than a year in prison.

“She was traumatized,” Amro told Al Jazeera. “She couldn’t fully explain how they behaved in prison.”

The next day, Israeli soldiers hit Amro’s door and warned him that he had no fun or celebrating Janin’s release, or would otherwise arrest her.

He promised that he would not, but it remained terrified that Israeli soldiers would attack their home again to arrest Janina or one of his other children.

Part of life under occupation, he explained, realized that your loved ones can be arrested at any time for no obvious reason.

“There is a lot of fear at the moment because of escalation on the west coast,” he said, resigning.

“Every day of occupation [army] Arrests 30 to 40 or as many as 50 new prisoners. “