Two Palestinian prisoners complete 21, 25 years behind Israeli prison bars

Two Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails complete today 21 and 25 years behind Israeli prison bars, the Palestinian Prisoner Society(PPS) said.
Wa’el Yaqeen Natsha, from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was arrested on March 28, 2000, and was sentenced to a life in prison for resisting the Israeli occupation.
Akram Ibrahim Qawasmeh, a Palestinian citizen of Jerusalem, was also arrested on this day in 1996 for resisting the Israeli occupation. He is serving two life sentences.
Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups said there are 26 Palestinian prisoners before Oslo.
The number of Palestinian prisoners serving a sentence above 20 years is 497, while the number of prisoners serving life a sentence is 543.
There are 33 Palestinian prisoners serving more than 25 years of sentence, and 57 serving more than 20 years of sentence.
4500 Palestinians have been imprisoned in Israeli jails, among them 40 women, 170 children and 45 held in administrative detention.