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Published on: 01/02/2025 | 12:06:23
AI Summary:
Israel released a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in Gaza. 111 Palestinians released Saturday have been held without trial since the day after the Oct. 7 attack. The remaining 72 Palestinians served long sentences or life sentences for deadly attacks against Israelis. El-Halabi, 47, and World Vision vigorously denied the allegations. Independent investigations found no proof of wrongdoing. Rights groups say he was denied a fair and transparent trial. Israel has attributed closed hearings to sensitive security information. Abu Srour was sentenced to life in prison over a 2000 attack that killed Israeli soldier Shahar Veckart. During the second intifada, the shrine became a target of Palestinian militants protesting Israel’s claim to the holy site revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Zakaria Zubeidi is a prominent former militant leader and theater director whose dramatic jailbreak in 2021 thrilled Palestinians across the Middle East and stunned the Israeli security establishment. Zubeidi had served years in prison for attacks in the early 2000s. He denies charges, saying he gave up militancy to focus on his political activism. In 2021, he and five other prisoners tunneled out of a maximum-security prison in northern Israel. All six were recaptured days later. Aradeh has three brothers and a sister who have spent years in Israeli prisons. Held responsible for a string of deadly attacks during the second intifada, the men were sentenced to multiple life sentences in 2002. They were accused of plotting a suicide bombing near Tel Aviv in 2002 that killed 15 people. Later that year, they were found to have orchestrated a bombing at Hebrew University that killed nine people, including five American students. Latifa Abu Hamid, 72, now has three sons exiled, one still imprisoned and one killed by Israeli forces. Their family house has been demolished at least three times by Israel. Al-Tous had held the title of longest continuous Israeli imprisonment until his release last Saturday.
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