APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Bethlehem - 14 March 2021. Freed Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Karaja, is welcomed by relatives upon his release from an Israeli jail, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Karaja
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Karaja was released after serving a 17 -year-sentence in an Israeli jail.
Of the 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners being held captive by Israel, according to Stop the Wall, 450 are children and teenagers,125 are women. Held in "administrative detention" are 1,050 Palestinians, which means they have not been charged with any crime and can be jailed for up to 6 months with the detention renewable indefinitely. According to the Prisoner's Society, 186 Palestinians have died in the 27 Israeli-run prisons.
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