MADRID, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli authorities released 30 Palestinian prisoners this Wednesday, including the prominent activist Ahed Tamimi, as part of the agreement reached with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in exchange for the release of ten Israeli hostages, of which at least five They would have dual nationality.
The Israeli Penitentiary Service has published the list with the names of the prisoners who have been released tonight, although Tamimi’s name already appeared on a list of fifty Palestinian women published days ago by the Israeli Ministry of Justice in view of the extension of the truce agreement.
After her release, she explained to the Palestinian media about the “difficult conditions” to which they have been subjected in prison and has assured that the Israeli authorities have threatened to kill her father, who is also imprisoned, the news portal reports. Al Quds.
Tamimi was arrested on November 6 as part of a series of operations by Israeli security forces in the city of Ramallah, West Bank, in relation to a message on social networks supposedly posted by the young woman – and denied by the family. – stated that “in comparison, you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke”, so the authorities maintained that it was a message that incited hatred and violence.
The young woman, who had been released in 2018 when she was 17 years old after spending eight months in prison for slapping a soldier who invaded her house in the town of Nabi Salé, had become an icon of the resistance of the Palestinian people after a photo from 2015, when he was fourteen years old, in which he appeared biting an Israeli soldier who was trying to arrest his little brother.
Israel and Hamas agreed last week on a four-day temporary truce that came into effect on Friday and was extended on Monday, although this Thursday at dawn it comes to an end, unless they manage to reach an agreement for another extension.