Palestinian prisoner: Palestinian prisoner Karim Younis has been released on Thursday (January 5) after serving the longest sentence of 40 years in Israel’s prisons. Israeli prison officials released 66-year-old Yunus from Hadrim prison north of Tel Aviv on Thursday morning.
He was arrested in 1983 and charged in Israeli courts with the murder of an Israeli soldier in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights three years earlier. Younis hails from the Palestinian village of Ara in Israel, where he was greeted by his close relatives and friends on Thursday (January 5).
compared release to army operation
Karim Younis spoke to Al Jazeera soon after his release and compared this release to an army operation. He said he was taken between different police cars, before being dropped off in Raanana, a town north of Tel Aviv. There he contacted his family with the help of a passerby. Al Jazeera’s Karim Younis reporting from Arrah village Imran Khan Said that Younis was released at 5:30 am and people thronged the streets of his village to welcome him.
a key figure in the Palestinian conflict
Foreign media said that Karim Younis was one of the key figures in the Palestinian struggle. He is seen as such a person. When he was arrested he was a rising star within Palestinian politics. He was accused of murder. The vast majority of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are from the occupied West Bank, Younis is a Palestinian citizen of Israel.
Palestinians say he was simply protesting the occupation. Israelis say it was an internal Israeli matter. He was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later reduced to 40 years. After his release, Younes visited the grave of his mother, who had died eight months earlier.
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