Longest-serving Palestinian prisoner released from Israeli prison - Punch Newspapers

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Israeli prison authorities released Younis, 66, from Hadarim prison just north of Tel Aviv at dawn on Thursday morning. Younis hails from the Palestinian village of Ara in Israel, where large crowds of relatives and friends greeted him on Thursday.He said that he had been moved between different police cars before being dropped off at a location that turned out to be a bus station in Ranana, a town north of Tel Aviv.Reporting from Ara, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan said Younis was released at 5:30 am and that people had poured into the streets of his village to welcome him.

“The Palestinians say he was simply resisting the occupation, the Israelis say this was an internal Israeli matter. He was originally sentenced to life, which was then commuted to 40 years. He is being released simply for the fact that he served his sentence,” added Khan.

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