Israel releases detainee suffering from cancer

Israel on Monday released a 23-year-old detainee suffering from cancer, a prisoners institute in Hebron said.

Hamza al-Tarayra was detained in 2009 at a checkpoint near Bethlehem as he returned from hospital in Jordan, the center said.

Amjad al-Najjar, director of the prisoner rights group, said al-Tarayra has mouth cancer and was previously detained in 2008. He was released in 2009 by a supreme court decision and left to Jordan for treatment.

Al-Tarayra cannot speak and needs immediate medical treatment, al-Najjar said.