Israel releases Hamas co-founder after 2 yrs of detention, son says

The son of a Hamas co-founder said that Israeli authorities released his father in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after holding him without trial for more than two years.
Hassan Yousef, 71, was “freed near the southern West Bank city of Hebron” and taken to a hospital in Ramallah where he resides, his son Owais Yousef said.
Yousef is a senior leader of Hamas in the West Bank, having co-founded the group in the 1980s along with Sheikh Ahmad Yassine and other Palestinian members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Israeli police did not immediately respond to an AFP request for confirmation.
Yousef had been held in Israeli administrative detention since October 2023, shortly after the Ha...