The Syrian state has continued its efforts to liberate its citizens from Israeli occupation prisons for the second consecutive day. According to informed sources reported by the SANA news agency, the operation is a continuation of the exchange process that started yesterday through Russian mediation. The two prisoners, Mohammad Ahmad Hussein and Tarek Ghassab Al-Abaidan, have been released and returned to their towns in the Quneitra province.
Yesterday, the activist Nahal Al-Maqd was freed as part of the same operation, which included the release of an Israeli girl who had mistakenly entered Syrian territory - in the Quneitra area - and was arrested by Syrian authorities. SANA reported that in line with the Syrian state's commitment to liberate its citizens from Israeli occupation prisons by all possible means and at any cost, efforts are underway to free Syrian nationals from the occupied Golan Heights from Israeli detention.
The exchange, facilitated by Russian mediation, aimed to release Syrians Nahal Al-Maqd and Dhiab Qahmouz, a Syrian prisoner from the occupied Golan Heights, in a deal that also involved the Israeli girl who mistakenly entered Syrian territory. The sources did not provide details about the girl or the date of her arrest, nor was there an immediate comment from the Israeli side on the matter.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club reported that "the administration of the Negev prison summoned Qahmouz in the morning to inform him of the decision to release him as part of the exchange deal, but he refused and insisted on returning to his village, going back to where he is still detained in the Negev desert prison."
