Mother of longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons passes away
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Mother of the longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli prisons, Kareem Younis, passed away on Thursday at the age of 90.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs said Sobhia Younis, the mother of Kareem Younis, passed away two days ago at the age of 90 while her son turned grey in Israeli prisons as he is serving 40 years of prison, and he is due to be released in 8 months.
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.
Media coverage | Hajji Sobhia Younes, the mother of the longest-serving Palestinian political prisoner Kareem Younes, passed away on Thursday at the age of 90. For 39 years, she's been waiting for her son's freedom day scheduled for next January.#FreeThemAll pic.twitter.com/eM8XhcTkiu
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