Abdel Jawad and Mohammad Shamasneh, two Palestinian brothers serving a life sentence in Israeli prisons, complete today 29 years behind Israeli prison bars, according to a prisoner advocacy group.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said the two siblings, who hail from the village of Qatanna, northwest of Jerusalem, were arrested on this day in 1993, and were sentenced to life in prison for their activism in the resistance of the Israeli occupation.
The two siblings are among a group of 26 Palestinian prisoners who are still imprisoned by the Israeli occupation since before the 1993 Oslo Agreement, and who in 2014 Israel declined to release leading to the failure of peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis at the time.
The Israeli occupation authorities are currently incarcerating more than 4,500 Palestinian and Arab prisoners for resisting its occupation of their homeland.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency