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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Mother of long-serving Palestinian prisoner dies

Ma'an
The mother of Palestinian prisoner Rizq Salah from the southern West Bank town of Al-Khadr near Bethlehem died on Saturday.

... spent the last 17 years of her life suffering at Israeli military checkpoints, and prison gates while visiting her son."

... Maryam suffered from a brain clot a year ago, and remained bedridden. However, on 23rd of February 2009, she insisted on visiting Rizq at Beer Sheva prison in an ambulance – her final visit to her son. Full story
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