Longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons to be freed in 48 days, says watchdog
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons, Kareem Younis, is set to be freed in 48 days.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs said today that Kareem Younis who is serving 40 years of prison is due to be released in 48 days.
Kareem Younis, 63, and his cousin, Maher Younis, 64, both from the town of Ara in the northern occupied Palestine, were arrested on 6 January 1983 for their resistance to the Israeli occupation and sentenced to life in prison, which was later reduced to 40 years.
Both were supposed to have been freed in 2014 in a deal brokered by then-US Secretary of State John Kerry in which ‘Israel’ was supposed to free all Palestinian detainees arrested before the signing of the so-called Oslo Accords in 1993.
Kareem’s mother died in May at the age of 90 before seeing her son who turned grey in Israeli prisons.
