Hostage, detainee or detainee? Israel-Hamas during the latest exchange it is not always clear
At the beginning of this week, Palestinian activist Bushra al-Tahil was released from the Israeli prison, in front of Hamas hostages this week, many media outlets were called prisoners. or worseTerrorist.
This is not the case when no Israeli court found him guilty of the crime, has not charged and has not submitted any evidence to why he was imprisoned for more than 10 months.
However, in the eyes of the world, Al-Tahil says he was guilty.
“They are only trying to make us a criminal,” he said in an interview with CBC in Ramallla, an occupied western coast, a few days after the release.
Palestinian detainees and their defenders say that the wide definition of Palestinians as prisoners is part of a deliberate strategy.
“The hostages of Israel, which are in Gaza, are considered” kidnapped “because the criminals kidnapped them,” Al-Tahil said. But since he was kept in Israeli prison, he said he had become a “prisoner.”
Thousands of Israelis have been celebrated on the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities, when Romi Gonen, Emily Damarker, finally released last Sunday from Gaza. Hamas says that it will deliver another four Israeli hostages on the next Saturday, another large group of Palestinian detainees.
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel began after the first three hostages were released in front of the Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The unstable, temporary ceasefire also notes increasing humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Although no doubt, three women lived in Gaza 470 days of nightmare, Al-Tahil said her time to be in Israeli prison was also difficult. He says he has been wearing insulation, poor treatment and psychological violence for months.
Prisoner Rights Defender
Al-Tahil, 30, has been well known for Israel and Palestinian autonomy for many years.
He was arrested or arrested seven times in the Western Protector of the Prisoners on the West Coast of the Jordan River, over the age of 18, and in 2011 he was part of prisoners with the participation of Israeli soldier Gilad Shaliet.
Al-Tahil says that he only condemned himself for something to provoke terrorism. He says it's a stubborn term that can cover everything that Israeli authorities want. In that case, he says that he made speeches and posts on the face of Israel's occupation.
He said that his father, who was also imprisoned in Israeli prison, could be released as part of the exchange of ongoing detainees / hostages.
The Israeli Ministry of Justice listed: Bushra al-Tahil, which is connected with Hamas, has said CBC News that it does not correspond to reality.
According to the controversial rules of Israel's administrative detention, which were recently driven Changes: Now it only applies to non-Jews. The government is not obliged to publicly identify what evidence has to keep people in prison for security reasons.
Al-Tahil says that in March, Israel's security services appeared in a friend's apartment, where he lived and “severely beat him” before he was prison. In prison, he said he was subjected to random search and double intimidation male guardians, including women's hygiene.
“It was a matter of retaliation,” he said. He claims that the Israeli authorities were angry with Hamas's October 7, 2023, and their former activity against Israel's occupation of the West Coast.
CBC News has contacted the Israeli military to get additional details on Al-Tahil's case, but he has been transferred to the country's security service. Several calls and telephone messages have not been returned.
Administrative detention
Sarit Mikaeli, Israeli B'Telem Human Rights NGO, says the question of who the prisoner is, who is the detainee is “foggy”.
“Some (prisoners) have been convicted of nothing. Others have been convicted of killing dozens of Israelis. But then there is another group of Palestinian prisoners who have been convicted in Israel's courts for crimes for which Israelis will never be arrested or accused, for example. , crimes related to incentive or public violations, “he said to CBC News.
“Probably the vast majority of the prisoners, whom the Israelis describe as” terrorists “, did not take anything violent,” he said.
As Israeli hostages are kept by Hamas and other militants, Al-Tahil says that his prison guards have been told and other Palestinian women to exchange it simply to exchange Israeli hostages.
“Everyone was waiting for (ceasefire) transaction, because there was no one to justify our arrest,” he said.
The famous Palestinian politician on the West Coast of Jordan River told CBC News that the Israeli tactics to gather people before such exchanges.
“We play a mouse and cat,” says Sabri Saidam, a high-ranking member of the FATH party, who dominates the Palestinian autonomy in Ramalla.
A few hours after the ceasefire came into force in Gaza, Israeli troops opened a new front in the conflict by sending a large military contingent. to the West Coast Jenny to “eliminate terrorism”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated post.
Social Media: Photos: On Monday evening, as it appeared, he showed dozens of Palestinians who were arrested by Israeli security forces.
“Preliminary numbers show that those who gathered last night and last night surpassed those who were released,” said Saidam.
The Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the western coast of the occupied Jordan River, to “beat terrorism.” It is anxious that the war stopped in the Gaza Strip will resume there.
More than 60 of the 90 Palestinians exchanged during the transaction last weekend, and everyone else was arrested after eight attacks on October 7.
None of the Palestinian people released in the first batch of the first batch was sentenced to the murder of Israelis. The most severe crimes was accused of attempting to kill a 15-year-old boy, although he was not convicted after his release on Monday morning.
If the ceasefire is underway, further transactions of detainees / hostage exchange will include people convicted of execution, according to the list published by the Israeli government.
Israeli TV stations report that more than 700 Palestinians who can eventually be released may be more than 100 people who are convicted.
1,000 people captured by Israeli forces will also be returned to Gaza, but the Israeli authorities did not say whether anyone is suspected of crimes.
The issue of equivalence
Although many Palestinians are the condition of the detainees are similar to the state of captivating Israeli hostages, the issue of equivalence is buried among Jewish groups outside the country, including Canada.
Honest Reporting Canada, who considers itself the control of Israel's “fair and accurate media coverage, has expressed support For the rules of Israeli administrative detention, it has stated that any adequacy between Palestinians and hostages in Israeli prisons is “morally thumb.”
In November 2023, after the first and only stage of the exchanging hostages / detainees, the American Jewish Committee issued his doc, The Palestinians in Israeli prisons “have made an active choice” to commit a crime, while the only “crime” who did the Israelis and other foreign hostages was that they were “Jewish or Israel.”
On Tuesday, the Israeli Arab Alphabet, the Israeli MP, caused an online response to the Jewish Israelis when it published that three hostages were happy, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners.
“We are all free to be free,” said Air Air.
Later on social media platform X, Odeh explained If the Jewish Israelites are “inclined to see mostly Jewish suffering, I see and feel the suffering of the two peoples, this is just a reality, not only all the Arabs living in this country.”
Bushra Al-Tahil says she enjoys its freedom, spending time with her mother and reading. But he is afraid that peace will be short, and he will return to the bars soon.
“We are always concerned, not because we are afraid, but because the situation will never be good.”
