Israel prevents Palestine prisoners’ families from travelling to Egypt to welcome them

The Israeli authorities are preventing the wife of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, Nael Barghouti, and the family of prisoner Khalil Abu Al-Rub from travelling to Egypt to welcome their relatives, who are scheduled to be released on Saturday, according to reports by the Prisoners’ Media Office on Friday.

The office revealed in a statement: “The occupation intelligence is preventing the wife of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, Nael Barghouti (Abu Al-Nour), from travelling, as she was heading to Egypt to greet her husband who will be released tomorrow in the Al-Aqsa Flood deal.”

The statement added: “The occupation intelligence is preventing the family of prisoner Ashraf Khalil Hussein Abu Al-Rub from travelling to greet their son who is being deported to Egypt.”

Prisoners Barghouti and Abu Al-Rub are among the prisoners who are being deported and exiled from Palestine while their families reside in the occupied West Bank. They are scheduled to be released on Saturday as part of the seventh batch released as part of the prisoner exchange deal.

Earlier on Friday, the Prisoners’ Information Office in the Gaza Strip announced that Israel would release 602 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, including 50 sentenced to life and 60 serving long sentences.

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