Salame, Ghunaim urge Shalit captors to insist on demands

[ 07/05/2011 - 07:13 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails Hassan Salame and Abdul Hadi Ghunaim have urged the captors of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to stick to their demands and not to cede any of them.

Salame and Ghunaim in a message published by the Palestinian center for the defense of prisoners on Friday said that Palestinian resistance should particularly insist on the freedom of Palestinians serving high sentences.

Salame, who is serving 48 life sentences, and Ghunaim, who is serving 16 life sentences in addition to 480 years, said that the list of prisoners presented to the Israelis in exchange for Shalit should never be altered.

They called on the resistance factions holding Shalit to resist all pressures by Israel to remove some names of prisoners serving high sentences from the list.

They said that all prisoners, especially the oldest serving ones, are impatiently waiting for the day of freedom, adding that they die a "hundred times" in prison each day.

Both prisoners, who are from Gaza Strip, appreciated the Palestinian resistance's concern with the issue of prisoners, describing its demands as "just".

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