Days of Palestine – Ramallah
Two Palestinian siblings from the town of Umm al-Fahem, inside Israeli-occupied territories in 1948, complete on Saturday 30 years behind Israeli bars.
Muntaser Samour, the director of the Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, said that the two brothers were detained for their role in the Palestinian resistance movement against the Israeli occupation.
He added to WAFA official news agency that Ibrahim Ighbarieh, (55) and his brother, Mohammad, 52, were arrested on February 26, 1992, and sentenced to life in prison.
The two siblings, along with 26 other Palestinian freedom fighters still in Israeli jails, are considered among the longest-serving prisoners held since before the signing of the Oslo accords in 1994 between the Palestinians and Israeli occupation.
They were supposed to have been released in 2014 in a deal brokered by then US Secretary of State John Kerry. However, Israel reneged on the deal and refused to release them, which led to the collapse of the peace process.
Currently, there are 4,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Most of them are imprisoned following trials in Israeli military courts. These trials do not live up to the minimum requirements of fairness as defined by international law or the legal norms practiced, even in nominally democratic countries.
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