An Israeli court has resentenced a Palestinian man who was released from prison 34 years ago as part of an officially recognised prisoner swap in 1983, Quds Net News reported yesterday.
Head of the studies and documentation department of the PLO’s Prisoners Committee, Abdel-Naser Ferwaneh, said that Yousef Abul-Kheir, 74, was rearrested at Ben Gurion Airport while he was returning to his birthplace in Akka (Acre).
Abul-Kheir was born in 1945 in Akka and worked as a carpenter. In 1966 he got married and had two children before he was arrested in 1969 after being accused of being part of a Palestinian militant group that carried out attacks against Israelis.
In 1983 he was released as part of the Ahmed Jebril prisoner swap but in 1985 Israel revoked his citizenship and expelled him.
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He went first to Libya and then moved to Greece. Abdul-Kheir eventually got the necessary permission to visit his birthplace but was arrested immediately upon his arrival. He was brought before the Israeli parole board which approved his arrest.
Ferwanah called for all related organisations to stand beside Abdul-Kheir.
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