Palestinians participate in a protest in support of Ahmed Saadat in Nablus, on December 25, 2008. (MaanImages/Rami Swidan)Seven Palestinian men remain in Israeli detention nine years after they were illegally detained during an Israeli attack on a Palestinian prison in Jericho, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said in a report released on Saturday.
The report highlighted the dismal prison conditions faced by Ahmad Saadat, secretary-general of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as Ahed Abu Ghalma, Hamdi Qaraan, Basel Asmar, Majdi al-Rimawi, Yasser Abu Turki, and 75-year-old Fuad Shubaki, who is the oldest Palestinian prisoner currently serving time in Israeli prison. The group was kidnapped on March 14, 2006 as part of the Israeli military operation "Bringing Home the Goods," which involved an attack on a prison run by the Palestinian Authority where the men were being held.