The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies reported that , al-Tous, a native of al-Khalil’s town of Jaba’a, ended his 32nd year and entered his thirty-third year in prisons of the Israeli occupation.

The media spokesman of the Center Riyad Al-Ashqar pointed out that the prisoner “al-Tous” is the longest serving Palestinian detainee in the occupied West Bank and the third in Palestine.

Life-sentenced al-Tous has been jailed since October 6, 1985 after the Israeli authorities charged him with carrying out anti-occupation operations.

He is the sole survivor of a bloody attack by the Israeli occupation forces near the Jordanian borders in 1985 against a Palestinian commando unit. At the time, al-Tous was injured and arrested.

His son Shadi said that the family has gone through hard times due to the absence of their father.

“Our situation has gone from bad to worse after my mother died of a stroke. My brothers and I have been gone orphaned ever since”

Shadi expressed hope that his father would be released in a new prisoner swap deal with the Israeli occupation.