Joy in Israel, restrictions on Palestine for released prisoners, prisoners | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict

In Israel, the release of prisoners from Gaza was celebrated, and each welcomed the home on the scenes of joy on the streets of the country.

Palestinians, on the other hand, were said to be allowed to let their prisoners be released by Israel. In fact, Israel explicitly banned any attempt to greet the prisoner house.

In an incident that emphasized the tension, the Israeli army launched retaliation just a day after the release of Ashraf Zghair, a 46-year-old Palestinian who was closed from 23 years and served six lifelong punishments.

When neighbors and family members openly celebrated Zghair’s edition on Saturday, January 25, the authorities arrested his brother Amir, Father four.

Mounir Zghair, an official spokesman for the Jerusalem Association of Prisoners of War and Ashraf’s father, condemned his arrest in an interview.

“My son’s arrest has no legal basis,” he said. “We are not officially informed about what rules we are supposedly violating.”

This incident is a wider form of limitations imposed on Palestinian prisoners and their families. One family, speaking on the condition of anonymity, because of fear of retaliation, revealed the extent of these restrictions

“We are not allowed to host reception or distribute sweets,” said the Al Jazeera family. “The published detainees are also forbidden to talk to any form of media under the threat of re -arrest. This is a way of occupation to limit the freedom of prisoners even after their release. “

Israel framed the release of Palestinian prisoners as a necessary evil and jumped in agreement with the “terrorist organization”. Therefore, he considers that every celebration of their release is to support “terrorism”.

“The consequences of celebrations are many, including the arrest of family members of released prisoners for supporting the terrorist organization, as in the case of brother Ashraf Zghair, who was arrested for the welcome of his published brother with” Green Flags, “said Mohamed Mahmoud, a lawyer working on Palestinian prisoners’ cases . The Hamas flag is green, but also many other flags representing Palestinian groups or Islamic causes.

Prisoner conditions

The future of fire breaks is currently uncertain. Hamas said on Monday that he would suspend the release of prisoners scheduled for Saturday for Israeli violations of the agreement. Israel replied threatening to restart the bombing of gauze If prisoners are not released.

Much of the focus in the days before Hamas’s announcement was provided that three Israeli prisoners were released from Gaza on Saturday – All appear exhausted. However, a little focused on a large number of Palestinian prisoners who came out of Israel’s prison in similar countries, many of whom were taken to the hospital.

One of the Palestinians published at the end of January was 18-year-old Adam al-Hadra, who was detained from the occupied West Coast in November 2023.

“When I learned that I was involved in the agreement, I returned to life. It was an indescribable feeling. What hurt the most was far from my family, not to mention the humiliation, hunger and illness that we suffered in the occupation prisons” , he told Al Jazeera.

However, the freedom of al-Hadra came with current restrictions. A few days of releasing freedom, it is forbidden to enter the old town of Jerusalem – “Another way in which the occupation imposes authority to Palestinians,” he noted. Al-Hadra lawyer said Al Jazeera that the Israeli authorities had not given a reason for restrictions.

Potential to re -capture

Many of the arrested Palestinians can be re -arrested by Israel, and many who have been involved in previous exchange have been.

Legal expert Nadia Daqqa emphasized significant concerns about the release procedure.

“The prisoners were released without giving any legal documents explaining the framework of their release,” she explained. “This is a big problem because Israeli law now allows the Government to re -capture the prisoners as soon as the political or security interest is over.”

This holds prisoners in “legal udubina,” Daqqa emphasized, adding that the lack of documentation can limit the ability of a lawyer to protect them and defense in case he is arrested again.

While Al-Hadra was sentenced to three years in prison, Israel was also held thousands of Palestinians in what is called “administrative custody”, the process by which Israel holds the detainees without accusations. Prior to that, a far smaller number of Israelites were held in the administrative detention, but the Israeli government has now openly stated that it will only be applied to Palestinians.

Qasssem Jaafra, another 18-year-old among those published at the end of January, was among those held in the administrative custody.

“I was only told half an hour before release,” he said. “I missed my family, friends and school, but it also hurts to leave my close friends in prison.”

According to the Israeli Human Rights Organization B’tselem, more than 3,300 Palestinians are currently in administrative custody.

A report of the Euro-MED Human Rights Monitor published earlier this month has provided a terrible critique of the detention system.

It was concluded that the Israeli prisons and detention centers make “a systematic frame inherent in the torture and harassment of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, while denying them their most basic human rights.”

The report further argued that the systematic abuse of Palestinians was enabled by a long -term history of unpunished Israel that enjoys the United States and European Governments, which is a serious violation of international detention standards.

But despite the irresistible challenges, hope persists.

As Al-Hadra concludes, “After difficulty, it becomes easy.”

This article was published in collaboration with EGAB.