The longest serving Palestinian prisoner detained behind Bars by Israel for 40, he said being released is like “military proces.”
Karim Younis is a resident of the town of Ara in Northern Israel on January 6, 1983 and was sentenced to life imprisonment for membership in Fatah movement. The sentence was later reduced to 40 years old in prison.
I remember today of His release from prison, Yunus said, was like a “military proces.”
“The Israeli prison The authorities transformed the process of layoff in something like a military process,” he said in Exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency.
“It was about before dawn took Me, and I expected them to hand me over over to me area Release the police from the police station. that they took by car in Weird and outrageous way. every five minutes, car A will enter side The road is switched as if we were in a military Yunus said.
“Drop me off Somewhere, an officer handed me my belongings, gave me a bus card, and directed me with His hand towards the bus stop, and he told me: Go home on your own.”
Yunus said he moved to the bus station, where he is met number of Palestinian workers.
“I asked one of With them for for him mobile the phone call for me family. When they heard my name, they all gathered around me and tried it on give me their food and drink, but you called me family And yet half An hour they came to the station pick I up,” He said.
Different world
Since its release thousands of Palestinians flocked to Younes. house to shake hands with for him.
Younes, the longest serving Palestinian prisoner in He was arrested in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, at the age of 26 years.
Four decades later behind Rails, released from prison to find that world she has changed.
“It’s a strange feeling, and it is hard to describe. when you go out to me world This is completely different from world You left”You have a very strange feeling,” he said.
“It’s hard to describe my feeling in Words, but a human feeling. it’s a new for Someone who feels free and humanity After so many years of the prison “.
Yunus pointed out that to him family padded up To shake his hand, but he found a whole generation of Relatives he has no met Before, though he knew them only through photos firstHis relatives were allowed to visit him in prison.
extremist government”
The Israeli Knesset is a law allows deportation of detainees or released prisoners who received financial Aid from the Palestinian Authority and withdrawal of their nationality.
“the campaign of The agitation started even before I got hit out of prisonAnd they tried more from time to pass expulsion law anyone who Works against Yunus said.
comment on the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Younis said: new The cabinet is perhaps the most extreme and fascist in the history of Israel.”
We say it’s the most extreme government in Israel because of These extremists who They became ministers.
The biggest indicator of This is the date of Itamar bin Juffair, Minister of National security, in the sense that it is also responsible for prison service added.
like for Younis bin Gvir said he used to threaten prisoners “to deprive them of their rights and send them back to the seventies.”
Our consolation is that our prisoners today are united in its shadow one roof f one The flag is the supreme command of prisoners to face This is amazing challenge And confront Ben Gvir.
Our prisoners will fight a battle To defend not only their accomplishments, however also their dignity and existence. For them, the matter will become a matter of life or death. “
like for His future Yunus told him ultimate dream It is an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
“I will duty toward (Palestinian) cause I am ready to continue struggle Because there is no retirement in Resistance ” added.
Written by Mahmoud Barakat
