On Monday, 1 July, Hadeel Shatara, Palestinian educator and an administrator of the graduate program at Birzeit University, was seized by occupation forces as she returned to Palestine from Jordan at the Karameh crossing. She is currently being held incommunicado under interrogation, and her family and lawyer have not been informed of her location. We raise our voices to say: Free Hadeel Shatara and all Palestinian prisoners now!

The abduction of Hadeel Shatara is part and parcel of the systematic attack on Palestinian education by the Zionist occupation regime. She joins six Birzeit University women students – Yara Abu Hashish, Layan Kayed, Shahd Owaida, Mona Abu Hussein, and Wafa Nimr – and hundreds of Palestinian male students – seized by the occupation. Students, particularly throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine, have been subjected to mass arrest, while Palestinian student blocs are labeled “illegal organizations.”

In Gaza, every single university has been systematically destroyed by the occupation forces as part of their genocidal assault on every aspect of Palestinian life and society. University administrators have been targeted for assassination and kidnapped with fellow civilians, especially health care workers, and subjected to extreme forms of torture and abuse in the concentration camps for Palestinians from Gaza operated by the occupation forces.

This attack on Hadeel Shatara and Palestinian education is happening as university students are rising up around the world in a global student intifada to confront the genocide and resist Zionism and imperialism. Around the world, and particularly in the United States – the heart of the imperial core and the co-sponsor of the genocide, supplier of billions of dollars in bombs and weaponry to the Zionist regime – students have been beaten and arrested by police in an attempt to suppress this growing international movement with the liberation of Palestine at the core.

On January 19, at the end of the evening, the Israeli released the Palestinian captives from the West Bank as part of the ceasefire agreement finally began.

Most of these individuals have not been charged or tried : activists, lawyers, doctors, teachers, mothers and students are detained under the pretense administrative detention, while the journalists are held on the dubious charge of incitement.

Palestinian detainees were released from Ofer prison hours after Israeli captives were released from Gaza. Israel delayed the release to prevent celebrations, but the people remained undeterred. A total of 90 Palestinian detainees were freed, and buses have arrived in Beitunia, Ramallah, where they are being welcomed as part of the exchange deal.

Due to the delay in the release of 90 Palestinian hostages (including 20 children), intense clashes erupted at Beitunia’s Schools Roundabout. Israeli forces stormed the families' waiting area, using rubber-coated bullets and tear gas to prevent celebrations. At least 7 injuries have been reported as families awaited their loved ones near Ofer Prison. The delay is believed to be caused by the absence of one female prisoner from the agreed-upon list.

Khalida Jarrar, the Palestinian political prisoner, just got out of solitary confinement. Jarrar’s father, daughter and nephew all died while she was prison, and Israeli Security forces prevented her from attending any of their funerals.

All the Jerusalemite prisoners arrived at their homes accompanied by the occupation police, with soldiers and special forces around their homes :

1. Freed Zeina Barbar arrives at her family home, but Zionist thugs continue to surround the captives' homes, enforcing harsh conditions and preventing any moment of joy or celebration.

2. The child Rose Khweis arrives at her family home, escorted by her father, as Zionist thugs continue to enforce restrictions outside.

3. The child captive Fahmi Faroukh arrived at his family home.

According to The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem the released prisoners are :

• Nawal Fteiha, sentenced to 8 years in prison,

• Abla Sa’adat, 69 years old "administrative detention",

• Tamara Abu Laban, sentenced to one year in prison,

• Tahrir Jaber "administrative detention", female prisoners under arrest:

• Zeina Barbar,

• Latifa Msha'sha',

• Aseel Eid.

• Adam Al-Hadra, sentenced to 34 months in prison,

• Thaer Abu Sarah,

• Mahmoud Aleiwat,

• Fahmi Farroukh,

• Qasem Ja'afra,

• Firas Al-Maqdisi,

• Issam Abu Diab.

The liberated Palestinian young women from Birzeit University students, from left: media students Amal Shujaiya, Shatha Jaraba, a Biology and Biochemistry major, and Wafa Nimr, raise the victory sign from inside the buses at the moment of their liberation

Palestinian mother, Murjana Mohammed Mustafa Hreash, mother of Nasser (5 years old) and Mohammed (3), is freed after being abducted on March 10, 2024.

Inhuman conditions imposed by Israel

Families were forced to sign unfair conditions, including not showing joy at the release of their children. To protect their loved ones, they are avoiding media contact to prevent interference with their release or potential re-abduction. All Jerusalemite captives have returned home, escorted by Israeli intelligence, with soldiers and special units stationed around their residences. Families were also required to limit household gatherings to immediate family only.

List of the released :

The first list of captives scheduled for release on today, 19/1/2025, includes 90 female captives and children.

Among them are :

1. Palestinian human rights activist, Khalida Jarrar.

2. Journalist Rula Hassanein

3. Walaa Tanaja

4. Rawda Abu Ajmiya 5.Haneen Al-Masaeed (These three were previously released in the captives exchange deal November 2023 before re-abducted shortly after).

5. Nawal Fatiha (Abducted on 21/2/2021. Unjustly sentenced to 8 years in prison.)

6. Aseel Osama Shuhada, University student

7. Tamara Abu Laban,University student

8. Yasmin Abdel-Rahman Abu Srour,University student

9. Jenin Amr, University student

10. Shaimaa Rawajbeh, University student

11. Zeina Majd Barbar, University student

12. Wafa Nimr, University student

13. Saja Zuhair al-Muadi,University student

14. Amal Shujaiya, University student

15. Baraa Hatem Hafez Fuqaha,

16. Lana Fawalha Baraa Hatem Fuqaha

17. Khitam Arif Hassan Habaybeh, Palestinian teacher,

18. Murjana Hreash, Palestinian mother,

19. Dalal Al-Arouri,

20. Fatima Al-Arouri (They both are the sisters of the leader of the Hamas movement, the martyr Saleh Al-Arouri) 22.Alaa Al-Arouri (the daughter of Fatima Al-Arouri)

21. Journalist Bushra al-Tawil

22. Palestinian writer and author Israa Al-Aboushi

23. Writer Israa Lafi

24. Margaret Al-Rai

25. Dr. Zahra Khadra

26. Abeer Baara

27. The cub Firas Al-Maqdisi, 18,

28. The child Rose Yousef Mohammed Khweis (17 years old)

29. Tahrir Badran

30. Aseel Eid

31. Issam Abu Diab

32. Thaer Abu Sarah

33. Fahmi Faroukh

34. Mahmoud Aliwat

35. Nahil Masalma.

36. Latifa Mshasha,

37. Aya Ramadan

38. Shaima Ramadan, The two sisterS students at An-Najah and Al-Quds Open Universities.

39. The captive medical student, Duha Azzam Al-Wahsh,

40. Dunya Ishtia, a student at the Faculty of Sharia at An-Najah University,

41. Educator at Birzeit university, Hadeel Hijaz

42. Abla Sa'adat ( She is the wife of imprisoned leader Ahmad Saadat,)

43. Dania Hanatsheh (She was previously released in a captive exchange deal in November 2023 before the vile zionist terrorists re-abducted her again shortly after).

44. Rasha Hijjawi

45. Salah Hijawi, released in the November 2023 captive exchange deal, she was re-abducted and thrown under the so-called administrative detention without trial or charge,

46. Nidal Salah, a mother of three and a lawyer, is the wife of captive Muhammad Al-Zoghaibi, who has been detained since 6/5/2023 without trial or charge.

47. Maysar Faqih, a 60-year-old leader of the Popular Front and Palestinian feminist, was abducted last September and sentenced to the pretense of administrative detention without trial or charge.

48. Alla Jodeh