The beautiful love story of Majd Barbar and Fatima still echoes in the streets of occupied Jerusalem Al-Quds, a story that has become part of local folklore, part of the resistance against occupation.

Layan Kayed, a student at the Birzeit University in occupied West Bank, has been arrested twice since 2021 by the Israeli regime for her anti-occupation campus activism.

Farouk Ahmed Khatib, a 30-year-old Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, was released from an Israeli prison last week and is now lying on death bed.

Jailed in October 2015 on trumped-up charges, 21-year-old Ahmad Manasra bears deep scars of torture he has suffered in Israeli jails over the past eight years, leading to severe mental illness.

Nael Saleh al-Barghouti, 64, a Palestinian from the occupied Ramallah has been languishing in different Israeli jails for more than 42 years now on trumped-up charges.

Amid the death and destruction caused by weeks of Israeli bombing campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian prisoners freed under the truce deal have mixed emotions.

While Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails on bogus charges have for years faced severe abuse, torture and murder, the Israeli captives held by Hamas on Oct. 7 were treated with humanity.