Israel reinstates sentence Hamas leader's daughter

Israel has reinstated the previous sentence against the prisoner Bushra Al-Tawil, the Ahrar Centre of Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights revealed. She was one of the prisoners released in the Wafa Al-Ahrar swap deal in 2011 but was re-arrested a few months ago along with dozens of others released as part of the same deal.

Director of the Ahrar Centre of Prisoners’ Studies, Fouad Al-Khafsh, said that Al-Tawil had been released in 2011 as part of the swap deal after serving five months of her 16-month sentence. However, she was re-arrested by the occupation following the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli soldiers in Hebron last June.

Al-Tawil is the daughter of a Hamas leader in Ramallah, Sheikh Jamal Al-Tawil, who is currently held in an Israeli prison. She is a journalism student at Modern University College in Ramallah as well as an activist specialising in prisoner affairs.