File Photo: Nael Barghouti. Photo courtesy of palabroad website.
The 68-year-old Nael Barghouti is the highest-profile prisoner set to be released under the Gaza ceasefire that begins Sunday.
He was first arrested in 1978 and charged with carrying out armed operations and organizing cells to act against Israel. He was released in 2011 as part of the deal for the Hamas resistnace group to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but he was arrested again in 2014.
Barghouti’s wife, Iman, now worries about being able to see her husband if he is deported to an area she cannot easily reach. “They prevent families from seeing each other,” she said during an interview in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
She said she remembers her husband enjoying looking at the stars “because he didn’t see them for 33 years and a half.”
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