APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 08 July 2021. Israel released Hassan Yousef, a prominent leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" in the West Bank, after an administrative detention (without trial) that lasted 9 months.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 08 July 2021. Israel released Hassan Yousef, a prominent leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" in the West Bank, after an administrative detention (without trial) that lasted 9 months. STORYLINE: Youssef, 63, was released from the Israeli Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah, according to the Anadolu Agency. Youssef called "the human rights institutions, and the whole world, to stand up to their responsibilities towards the Palestinian detainees in general, and the administrators in particular." "Israel violates international law, and arrests Palestinians without trial and without right," he said. Yousef described administrative detention as a "crime and immoral." Administrative detention is a decision of detention without trial, and its period ranges from one to 6 months, subject to extension. Yousef continued, "I left behind me prisoners who yearn for freedom, and 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." Youssef was arrested on October 2, 2020, from his home in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, about two months after he was released from Israeli prisons. Youssef spent nearly 21 years in the occupation prisons, intermittently, most of them in administrative detention. Footage by APAwire
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