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Israel Releases Hamas Co-Founder After More Than Two Years
Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, 71, was released from Israeli administrative detention on Thursday. The release followed more than two years in custody. Yousef helped establish the group in 1987.
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Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, 71, was released from Israeli administrative detention on Thursday. A family member confirmed the release to local and international media the same evening.
is described as a senior leader of Hamas in the West Bank.
He helped establish the organization in 1987 with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and other Palestinian members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The detention lasted more than two years. No official reason for the release was provided in the report.
Yousef had been released previously after spending 28 months in Israel's Ofer prison near Ramallah. Palestinians greeted and congratulated him following that earlier release on January 19, 2014.
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