The US authorities released a Palestinian prisoner and transferred him to Mauritania on Friday.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that 60-year-old Rashed al-Zaghari was released after three years of negotiation without stating the parties that mediated his release.
Zaghari from Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem had been in a US jail for more than 16 years on allegations of detonating an airliner in 1982.
He was before that in Greece’s prisons before his extradition to the US. He already completed his prison term in the US in 2013 but he remained in detention because he had nowhere to go if released.
Israel reportedly declined a US request to let him return to his home in the West Bank at the pretext he had no documents to verify his identity.
