Israel News: The Palestinian prisoner Nael Bargoti, who has been the longest closed in Israeli jails, has been released under the Gaza ceasefire agreement. He was behind bars for more than four decades.
According to the Palestinian prisoner club advocacy group, Bargoti spent 45 years in jail, out of which 34 years were in jail. He reached Egypt on Thursday after being expelled from Palestinian areas after his release.
Arrested for the first time in 1978
Bargoti was first arrested in 1978 and was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an Israeli officer and attack on Israeli sites. At that time he was a member of Fatah, who is the movement of the current Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, a rival to the Islamic group Hamas.
The bodies of hostage and prisoners, which took place on Thursday morning, had the seventh and final agreement of the first phase of the delicate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The agreement came into effect on January 19 and its first phase ends on Saturday.
Israel released a statement
Israel said in its issued statement, “643 terrorists were transferred from several jails across the country and they were released under the terms of the ceasefire after Hamas handed over the bodies of four hostages.
It was also released in 2011
Bargoti was earlier released once in 2011, when Palestinian prisoners were swapped in exchange for an Israeli soldier caught by Hamas. He was then placed under house arrest in Kubar on the west coast of the captured west coast. In 2014, he was arrested again and separated from Fatah and joined Hamas in jail.
