The photo by the Resistance News Network shows the aftermath of an Israeli regime's raid on a Palestinian prisoner's home following his release under a ceasefire deal on January 28, 2025.
Gaza City, January 29 (RHC)-- The Gaza-based Prisoners Media Office has reported that the Israeli regime “systematically” harassed and persecuted Palestinian prisoners and their families before and after their release under a swap deal enshrined in the recent three-phase ceasefire agreement.
"The occupation is systematically terrorizing freed prisoners and their families through threats of assassination, arrest, home raids, and physical assaults,” the Prisoners Media Office was reported by the Resistance News Network as saying on Wednesday.
The office documented numerous violations in recent days and underlined that the "actions started even before the prisoners were released.”
The report said Israeli forces stormed the home of freed prisoner Raed Badwan in Badu, north of the occupied al-Quds, destroying its contents and brutally beating him, leaving him with injuries that required hospitalization.
The regime’s raid was conducted under the pretext of Badwan hosting celebrations for his release.
In another report, Zaid Amer’s family from Nablus was threatened with the bombing and destruction of their reception hall to prevent them from welcoming well-wishers celebrating his freedom.
The occupation’s intelligence services also summoned freed journalist Ashwaq Awad, who was freed in the first phase of the swap deal after five months, for interrogation at the regime’s Etzion detention center.
“The occupation forces raided dozens of homes belonging to freed prisoners, threatening to re-arrest them or retaliate if public celebrations for their release continued,” the Resistance News Network added.
In a report a day earlier, the Palestinian Prisoners Society also said the Israeli military carried out “systematic terrorism” against prisoners who were recently released under the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Shedding light on the systematic torture, severe beatings and brutal treatment the Palestinians faced before their release, the rights group appealed to the mediators to intervene in the issue of freed Palestinians and the challenges they are forced to face.
Virtually all of the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza have been internally displaced since October 2023 when the Gaza war began. Israel massacred over 47,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in its brutal aggression.
The regime accepted a ceasefire on January 25 after having failed to realize any of its wartime objectives, including “eliminating” the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Israel has released a list of more than 700 Palestinians who are to be freed under the deal. More than 230 are serving life sentences and will be permanently sent to exile upon release.
Hamas has said Israel was forced to “open the doors of his cells to our heroic prisoners” after months of “unprecedented brutal aggression that targeted every inch of Gaza in its barbarity.”
[ SOURCE: PRESS TV ]
