Publish date23 Nov 2014 - 10:22
Story Code : 174667

Nearly 500 Palestinians are serving life sentences inside Israeli jails

A Palestinian human rights organisation announced on Tuesday that 475 Palestinians are currently serving life sentences inside Israeli jails, Anadolu news agency reported.
Nearly 500 Palestinians are serving life sentences inside Israeli jails
The Palestinian Prisoners' Centre for Studies reportedly issued a statement saying that ۲۸ out of the ۴۷۵ Palestinians serving life in prison are from the Gaza Strip, while the others are from different areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

Prisoner Hassana Salameh from Gaza has received the largest number of life sentences. He was arrested on ۱۷ May 1996 and is serving 48 life sentences.

All Palestinian prisoners face Israeli military courts, which Haaretz newspaper reported last year "systematically deny Palestinians the right to a fair trial".

On 25 June 2006, Palestinian fighters arrested an Israeli soldier in a tank at the border of the Gaza Strip and later swapped him to secure the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.

According to Anadolu, the Palestinian ministry of prisoners issued a statement on 26 August saying that around 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently inside Israeli jails – 84.8 per cent are from the occupied West Bank, ۹.۵ per cent from Jerusalem or 1948 Palestine and 5.7 per cent from Gaza.
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