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“NO-ONE cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase — or some variation of it — uttered many times by freed Palestinian prisoners and their families.
Whenever I conduct an interview regarding this crucial and highly sensitive topic, I am told, repeatedly, that “no-one cares.”
But is this really the case? Are Palestinian prisoners so abandoned that their freedom, life and death are of no consequence?
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