"For a long time whenever Milad asked me on the phone, 'Daddy, where are you?' I avoided using the word 'prison.' I feared that it might be too much for her at her tender age to begin to live with this word and its weighty implications,” writes Walid Daqqah in his essay, “A Pace without a Door.” The 61-year-old Palestinian political prisoner and writer was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to a 37 years in Israeli prison. His sentence should have come to an end in 2023 but was extended by Israeli authorities for two years over the smuggling of mobile phones.
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee Has Been Accused by Right-wing MKs of Incitement Against the State of Israel, and Support for Terror Organizations, Which Arab MKs Are Calling an Attempt to 'Outlaw' Any Arab Leadership
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Prison Service Says Walid Daqqa, Who Was Convicted in Connection With the 1984 Murder of a Soldier, Is Suffering From a Terminal Illness, but a Special Parole Board Dealing With Life Sentences Rules His Offense Precludes Release