Shahd Abusalama

An elderly mother has been waiting 22 years for her son to come home. He was not included in the recent prisoner exchange deal.

Salama Mesleh was sentenced to 99 years in prison by Israel; he is not being released as part of the “swap” deal.

As many families celebrate in Gaza and the West Bank, let us remember those Palestinians still being held in Israeli jails.

A daughter of a former prisoner who spent 33 days on hunger strike writes from the Gaza Strip, urging international solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.