Liberated Prisoners Recall Experience in Gaza Central Prison
Ahead of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17, former prisoners visit the site of a well known prison in Gaza where they were detained and recount their experiences to Khaled Kraizim.
Abdul Nasser Farawana, a liberated Palestinian prisoner, recalled his experience in the Israeli prison where he had spent many years of his life. The prison is located in central Gaza and is still standing today, with its narrow cells and walls.
The 50-year-old former prisoner passed by the dark prison rooms, which used to house hundreds of men who resisted the Israeli occupation. Gaza Central Prison is one of the most famous Israeli prisons in the sector; it was abandoned by occupation forces in 1993 upon the implementation of the Oslo Accord.
Farawana returned to his cell, where he had been kept for weeks on end following the 1967 war, but this time not as prisoner. He is helping implement a project about an exhibition that would demonstrate the condition of prisoners many years after their release.
Occupation forces had detained hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza military prison, formerly known as “Saraya,” which is located in central Gaza. The Waad Association for the Support of Palestinian Prisoners has made the necessary preparations in the prison — which was bombed during the last Israeli aggression on the strip — for the observance of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on April 17.
