INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
after spending nearly two-thirds of his life behind bars.The 67-year-old was released on Thursday as part of the prisoner exchange deal
returned to live in his home town of Kobar, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.However, in 2014, Israel re-arrested him, violating the
23 October 1957 in the Palestinian village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, to a family of fighters involved in movements against the British
1936.At age 10, he witnessed the 1967 Israeli invasion of his village along with the rest of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza
exams, he was arrested again by Israeli forces and spent the next 34 years in jail.He was sentenced to life in prison on charges of killing
Fatah, since a young age, he switched allegiance to Hamas in the 1990s after the Fatah-led Palestine Liberation Organisation
determination to break our chains
