TULKAREM (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority has released Palestinian lawmaker Abdel-Rahman Zeidan former Minister of the Ministry of Public Works in the 10th Palestinian government of PM Ismail Haneyya.
Sources close to the former minister said that he was released from the Negev desert prison on Monday 2 March 2009 after spending 23 months in detention.
Zeidan was arrested on 23 May 2007 to join tens of Hamas lawmakers and ministers in Israeli occupation jails. This was the second time Zeidan was arrested and detained.
He had to undergo surgery during his detention as he suffered ill health.
Meanwhile the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a report that the Israeli occupation forces arrested 292 Palestinians in the West Bank during the month of February.
Amongst those arrested 35 people who are suffering health problems 59 minors and 4 girls.
Another human rights report by Tadamon in Nablus said that 23 Palestinians died during the month of February as a result of IOF attacks and incursions. 18 of them died in the Gaza Strip many of them succumbed to wounds they sustained in earlier IOF attacks 4 of them are children and 3 are women.
