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Nael Barghouti symbolises the plight of Palestinian prisoners

His story is one that brings home what Palestinian prisoners mean to Palestine. This is a people who have seen more than one million Palestinians imprisoned by Israel over the course of the occupation.

Up to 40 percent of males have been taken at one point or another into Israeli custody, and so there is a reverence for Palestinian prisoners.

In Palestinian society, they’re seen as having sacrificed their freedom for the freedom of their nation. And nobody has done that more than Nael Barghouti, having spent 45 years in Israeli imprisonment.

He will be exiled, expelled from his homeland and taken to Egypt until a country says it is willing to host him.

Israel has barred his family from travelling to Egypt to receive him.

‘Incomprehensible Brutality’: Israel’s Mass Torture of Palestinian Prisoners

Basil Farraj, Assistant Professor at Birzeit University in Palestine, joins the show to discuss how Israel is set to release 602 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, bringing the total freed to 1,737 as part of the ceasefire deal. Farraj discusses the brutal conditions of Israeli detention, where systematic torture, starvation, and abuse have left many prisoners in critical condition, while Israeli captives released appear unscathed by comparison.