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The Palestinians linked to suicide bombings and murder attempts are among the 369 released on Saturday By Israel In his last exchange for hostages captured by Hamas.
Thirty -six of the detainees were fulfilling perpetual chains in Israeli prisons, but only 12 of them were allowed to return to their homes in the Bank and East Jerusalem. The other 24 are being sent into exile.
On Saturdays released they wore white sweatshirts that gave them the service of the Israeli prison in their release, stamped with a star of David, the logo of the penitentiary service and the phrase “never forgive, never forgot” in Arabic in the front and rear, According to the associated press. A video later published in X supposedly showed those sweatshirts being burned.
Among those who returned to the West Bank were Ibrahim and Musa Sarahneh, who served more than 22 years in prison for their participation in suicidal bombing that killed several Israelis during the second Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israel in the early 2000s.
Ahmed Barghouti, on the right, and his fiance waited for his sentence in a military court near Ramallah in the West Bank on July 30, 2003. He finally received 13 perpetual chains for sending armed men who killed 12 Israeli during the second intifada. Barghouti was one of the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on Saturday, February 15. (Reuters/Gil Cohen Magen/JDP)
His other brother, Khalil Sarahneh, who was convicted of murder attempt and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002, was sent to Egypt.
Hassan Aweis, who was also sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 for voluntary homicide charges, planting an explosive device and attempted murder, according to the Israel Ministry of Justice, was among the few prisoners released welcome by cheerful crowds in Ramallah.
He was involved in the planning of attacks during the second intifada for the martyrs of Al-Aqsa, the AP reported.
The group, which is designated by the United States as a foreigner terrorist organization, It was “formed at the end of 2000 during the second intifada as a militant wing of the fatah’s political faction of the West Bank” and “seeks to lead the Israeli military forces and colonists of Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and establish a Palestinian State” , According to the US office of the director of National Intelligence.
A crowd burns the shirts used by Palestinian prisoners released in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, February 15. (AP/ABDEL Kareem Hana)
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Hassan Aweis’s brother, Abdel Karim Aweis, to whom the Israel Ministry of Justice said it was sentenced to the equivalent of six perpetual chains for charges that include throwing an explosive device, an attempt at murder and assault, was transferred to Egypt.
Ahmed Barghouti was also sent to Egypt on Saturday. Barghouti, who was once commander in the Brigades of the martyrs of Al-Aqsa, received a life imprisonment for sending suicidal aggressors and terrorists to carry out attacks that killed Israeli civilians during the second intifada.
The released Palestinian prisoners are received by a crowd in Khan Younis when they arrive at the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison on Saturday, February 15. (AP/JEHAD ALSHRAFI)
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Barghouti is a nearby assistant from Marwan Barghouti, a popular Fatah leader who remains in Israeli custody.
Associated Press contributed to this report.