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The oldest Palestinian prisoner, who had been imprisoned for 17 years in an Israeli prison for carrying weapons, was released on Monday.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Prisoners Association told reporters that 83-year-old Fawad Shobaki was released from Ashkelon prison and Shobaki’s son Hazem confirmed that he was about to return home.
According to the news, when Fawad Shubaki arrived at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, who was his close friend, the Palestinian authorities rushed to meet the elderly man in the Palestinian keffiyeh.
On the occasion, every child waved the Tehreek-e-Fateh flag, while women were seen proudly wearing T-shirts emblazoned with young Fawad Shubaki’s photos.
After praying at the grave of Yasser Arafat, Fawad Shubaki said that we will follow the same path that Yasser Arafat was right to follow, we will continue to fight his struggle at any cost, why don’t you pay, if you come to the country us, our people and those who died while walking on the straight path, our world is in vain.
It should be noted that Fawad Shubaki, a senior member of Tehreek-e-Fath, was arrested by the Palestinian security forces in 2002 at the height of the second rebellion.
They were trying to smuggle weapons from Iran to the Gaza Strip aboard the Crane A, which was seized by Israel in the Red Sea after Israeli forces said the ship was carrying 50 tons of weapons. Government in the West Bank city of Jericho under American and British supervision.
In 2006, Israeli soldiers entered the prison and Fawad Shubaki was taken to Israel.
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