Published on 6/18/2026
The Israeli occupation authorities released the Palestinian detainee, Abdul Karim Al-Rimawi, from the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, after 25 years of detention.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the town of Beit Rima prior to Al-Rimawi’s release, as part of military measures to dampen the family’s joy and prevent them from celebrating their son.
During the years of his detention, Al-Rimawi was deprived of saying goodbye to his parents, who died while he was in detention. He gave birth to his son, “Majda,” during his detention using “smuggled sperm,” in an experience that reflects one of the humanitarian conditions associated with the reality of detainees in occupation prisons.
After his release yesterday evening, Wednesday, Al-Rimawi met his family for the first time in 25 years, where he found his daughter, who was a one-year-old child when he was arrested, had become a young woman and had a master’s degree. He also met his son Majd, who was born during his period of detention.
In mid-2012, the first birth of a child from smuggled sperm was recorded when the wife of prisoner Ammar Al-Zaben – who has been sentenced to life imprisonment 27 times – gave birth to her first child, Muhannada.
The release of Al-Rimawi is one of the cases that sheds light on the conditions of detainees, and the profound humanitarian and familial repercussions that accompany long years of detention.
In what looked like a wedding party, the villagers received the liberated prisoner and lifted him on their shoulders amidst popular songs.
