Five years on: The Wafa al-Ahrar agreement and prisoner exchange

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – October 19, 2016 On 18 October 2011, 477 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli occupation prisons in the Wafa al-Ahrar (“Dedication to the Free”) prisoner exchange with the Israeli occupation. One week prior, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were engaged in an open-ended hunger strike against the solitary confinement and isolation of […]

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