Zionist enemy releases Hamas leader

SANAA, Jul. 8 (YPA) –  Zionist enemy authorities on Thursday released the prominent leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” in the occupied West Bank, Hassan Yousef, after an administrative detention that lasted 9 months.

Youssef, 63, was released from the Israeli “Ofer” prison, west of Ramallah, according to the Anatolia correspondent.

Immediately after his release, Youssef called on “human rights institutions, and the whole world, to stand up to their responsibilities towards Palestinian detainees in general, and administrators in particular.”

In an interview with Anadolu Agency, he said: “Israel is violating international law, and detaining Palestinians without trial and without right.”

Youssef described administrative detention as a “crime and immoral.”

Youssef continued: “I left behind prisoners who yearn for freedom; The Palestinian leadership and the factions are required to assume their responsibilities to release them.”

And about being repeatedly arrested by Israel, he said, “The occupation seeks to break our will, but it has failed and will not succeed.”

Yousef was arrested on October 2, 2020, from his home in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, about two months after his release from Israeli prisons.

Youssef spent, in the prisons of the enemy, nearly 21 years, intermittently, mostly in administrative detention.