The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) released Monday evening the journalist Omar Nazzal a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
Nazzal 55 was arrested on April 23 2016 at the Israeli-controlled Karama crossing that links Jordan with the West Bank.
Nazzal spent nearly a year in administrative detention according to which he was held without charge or trial.
His administrative detention was renewed three times without trial or indictment.
Shortly after his release Nazzal said that Palestinian prisoners are held amid very difficult detention conditions subjected to systematic harassment and ill-treatment aimed at breaking their strong determination.
The prisoners are planning to wage an open hunger strike in protest against their difficult detention conditions he added.
20 Palestinian journalists are currently held behind Israeli bars most of them are in administrative detention.
