Following release, elderly Palestinian security prisoner: 1. bashes Hamas, 2. price of October 7
Recently released Palestinian security prisoner Mohammed al-Tous spoke out against Hamas’s October 7 massacre in two separate interviews to Arab media this past week, citing the human cost of the ensuing Gaza war.
the 69-year-old ex-detainee said in a Friday interview with the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya outlet:
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"Today, I tell my grandchildren not to go down the path of attacks and resistance,”
“We don’t want our freedom to come at the expense of our children’s’ lives.”
Al-Tous is the oldest security prisoner freed so far as part of the Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal.
A member of the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah movement, he was arrested in 1985 for organizing attacks on Israelis in and around Jerusalem. He went on to spend 40 years in prison.
