RAMALLAH, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli authorities today freed Alaa Abu Jazar, 43, from Rafah city in the Gaza Strip, one day after he had completed his 17-year prison sentence but was kept in prison awaiting new interrogation, according to the Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups.

They said that the Israeli authorities informed the Abu Jazar family that he will be sent home today after dampening family plans to celebrate his release yesterday by telling them that he will remain incarcerated pending new interrogation.

The decision to extend the detention of Abu Jazar came after the Israeli Prison Services (IPS) raided Remon prison, where he was kept, and relocated as a result some of the prisoners who are members of the organizing committee.

Abu Jazar is father to one daughter, Jomana, who was several months old when he was arrested and sentenced for 17 years in 2003 for his resistance of the Israeli occupation. Jomana has lost her mother, grandfather and an uncle while her father was in prison.

M.K.