Hamas leader Jamal al-Tawil released

The Israeli Occupation has released on Thursday evening the former head of the al-Bireh municipality and a leader within the Hamas movement Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil, 55, from the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank.

The Israeli Court has decided on Thursday to release the leader in Hamas movement Sheikh al-Tawil, from Ramallah, after his administrative detention in Ofer prison, Palestine center for prisoners’ studies confirmed.

The lawyer has informed al-Tawil’s family that the Israeli court refused the appeal submitted by the Israeli Intelligence hours after issuing his release decision, the family told PIC.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil in January 2013 and turned him to administrative detention where he spent three months and a half.

The liberated prisoner was arrested several times in Israeli jails where he spent more than 12 years, mostly in administrative detention. He was elected as head of the al-Bireh municipality and was sacked illegally by Fatah movement in flagrant violation to the rules of democracy.

Sheikh Jamal’s wife, Muntaha al-Tawil, had been held in administrative detention for a whole year where her detention was extended four times in twelve months.