JENIN, Wednesday, January 02, 2019 (WAFA) – A Palestinian intelligence officer who completed 17 years behind Israeli bars for resisting the Israeli occupation was freed on Wednesday, according to family members of the freed prisoner.

The Israeli authorities released from prison Riyad Saleh Qasrawi, a former marine officer later became member of the Palestinian General Intelligence with a rank of brigadier general, who was detained on January 1, 2002, while on board of Karin A ship which the Israeli navy has intercepted and hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea.

Family of Qasrawi, who come from Raba village in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that Riyad has been released from the Naqab desert prison to Dahriyeh crossing in the south of the West Bank where he was met by family and friends to accompany him to Ramallah where he will be received by the head of the General Intelligence Majed Faraj and then meet with President Mahmoud Abbas.

Qasrawi is married and a father of two.

M.K.