The Jerusalemite prisoner, Samir Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Nima, 61, on Wednesday entered his 36th consecutive year of detention inside the prisons of the Israeli occupation.

The head of the Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families Committee, Amjad Abu Asab, stated that the prisoner Abu Nima is the oldest Jerusalemite prisoner in the occupation prisons.

Abu Nima was subjected to a harsh interrogation during his arrest. The occupation accused him of belonging to the Fatah movement, and blowing up bus No. 18 opposite the central station on Jaffa Street in 1983, which caused the killing of six Israelis and the wounding of a large number of them.

The occupation also accused him of supplying weapons to the perpetrators of the Dung Gate operation, in which an Israeli soldier was killed and 69 others wounded, and the Israeli court sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Abu Nima participated with his fellow prisoners in all the struggle steps against the injustice of the prison administration, and he waged an open hunger strike despite his deteriorating health condition.

The prisoner Abu Nima suffers from continuous pain in his right hand as a result of the torture he was subjected to, severe pain in the nerve center in the spine or the so-called disc in the neck, a broken nose, and ear pain, and he underwent several surgeries.

He was also subjected to punishments and isolation several times due to his activity in prison, and all of his group's members were liberated within the Wafa Al-Ahrar swap deal ten years ago.

Abu Asab indicated that the occupation deprived the prisoner Abu Nima of liberation in exchange deals several times, and he is one of the prisoners included in the fourth batch of releases that the occupation retracted.

Source : Safa