Raed Al-Saadi is a Palestinian man who spent 36 years in an Israeli prison. He was born on February 20, 1966, in Silat al-Harithiya, Jenin, and completed his primary and secondary education in Jenin schools.
At the age of 17, he was imprisoned for six months by the Israeli occupiers, but in 1989, he was arrested for the second time and has been imprisoned since then; the Israeli court sentenced him to 68 years in prison.
In his youth, he fought alongside Palestinian freedom fighters against the occupiers for the liberation of occupied Palestine. He was 17 years old when he raised the Palestinian flag on an electric pole in his village; as a result, the Zionist occupiers arrested him and imprisoned him for six months. Raed also memorized the Quran while in the occupiers’ prison.
He studied bombs and other explosives, which is why Israel pursued him for two consecutive years, but they were not successful in capturing him.
Due to pressure on Raed, the Israeli occupiers imprisoned his parents for four months but still failed. Finally, in 1989, when he wanted to see his family after a long time and went to his home to meet them, the occupiers arrested him and sent him to prison.
Israeli soldiers interrogated him in prison for a continuous (100) days to obtain more important information about Saraya al-Quds, but despite all their efforts, they were unable to do so. As a result, the occupying court sentenced him to two life terms.
He was accused of being a member of the Islamic Jihad and the Al-Quds Brigade and of being involved in military operations against Jews. In 2022, he published his novel “My Palestinian Mother Maryam” as a gift to all Palestinian mothers. In this novel, he described his efforts and activities against the Zionist occupiers.
In 2013, he should have been on the list to be released according to the Oslo Accords, but because the Jews engage in treacherous and deceitful dealings, he was not released.
However, after the recent Al-Aqsa Storm operation, he was released as a result of an agreement between Hamas and the occupying Zionist regime.
