Gaza – Interior Ministry
Israeli occupation authorities , have released on Monday evening 5/16/2011, two captives from Gaza Strip after they refused to bring them to the Gaza Strip under flimsy pretexts.
The prisoner Atef Hassan from Nusseirat, and the prisoner Saad Khalil Yazji from Mughraqa area , have arrived to the Gaza Strip through Beit Hanoun "Erez" in northern Gaza, after the ending period of their sentences in the Israeli jails .
The released prisoner Hassan was arrested in 1993, where he spent 18 years in the Israeli occupation jails, while captive Saad Yazigi in the mid-2004, and he spent 7 years in the Israeli prisons.
It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities postponed the release of captured twice , in pretext of the Zionism holidays in the first time, but in the second time, were detained them on Beit Hanoun and postponed their release without justification.
Ministry of Prisoners and Ex-detainees in Gaza , has denied the postponed the release of captives for the second time , pointing out that it is the manipulation of nerves and feelings of the prisoners and their families, and exert more stress on them, in addition to the wasting the joy of the prisoner and their families on the day of his release, after a severe suffering during the years of their detention.