Nael al-Barghouthi, the world’s oldest prisoner, will be released today.
According to the Palestinian Information Center, the oldest Palestinian prisoner (68 years old) from the village of Kobar in Ramallah, Nael al-Barghouthi, was arrested by the occupation regime in 1978 on charges of killing a Zionist settler and blowing up a cafe in Jerusalem and sentenced to life imprisonment and 18 years in prison.
He has spent 45 years in Israeli prisons, which is the longest period of captivity in the history of the prisoner movement.
He was released in 2011 as part of the prisoner exchange agreement known as the “Loyalty to the Freedmen” but was recaptured in 2014.
Nael al-Barghouthi will be released today, Saturday, as part of the “Storm of the Freedmen” agreement, but according to this agreement, he must be deported from Palestine.
The Prisoners’ Affairs Information Office announced that the Israeli intelligence service has prevented Nael al-Barghouthi’s wife from traveling to Egypt to welcome him.
In another hour, as part of the sixth round of the first phase of the Al-Aqsa Storm agreement, six Israeli prisoners will be released. The names of the six prisoners are: Elijah Cohen, Omar Shim Tov, Omar Fenkert, Tal Shoham, Avira Mengistu, and Hisham Al-Sayed.
Today, 50 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to one or more life sentences and 60 prisoners with long sentences are also scheduled to be released. In addition, 47 prisoners who were released from Israeli prisons in the so-called loyalty to the freed prisoners exchange, and who Tel Aviv had once again detained in violation of its obligations, will be released. 445 Gazans who were captured by the Israeli military after the October 7th operation will also be released today.