Published on 12/6/2026
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Last update: 02:49 (Mecca time)
Video scenes documented the moment of the release of the Palestinian prisoner, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank, Hassan Yousef, due to the deterioration of his health condition, after 32 months in Israeli occupation prisons.
Video footage showed that he was transferred directly to a hospital in Ramallah for medical examinations, in light of a clear deterioration in his health condition, as he suffers from torn tendons in his arm, in addition to a significant decrease in his weight (30 kg) during his period of detention in the occupation prisons.
In a statement, Hamas congratulated the family of Hassan Youssef on the occasion of his release, stressing that he represents an inspiring national stature and a symbol of patience and steadfastness.
She explained that “Commander Youssef” spent more than twenty years in occupation prisons, during which he remained committed to his positions and defended the rights of his people, despite the policies of isolation, torture, and medical neglect he was subjected to.
The movement renewed its pledge to the male and female prisoners that their cause will remain its top priority until their freedom is taken away and the occupation prisons are cleaned of all detainees.
Youssef (71 years old) served more than once as the movement’s spokesman in the West Bank, and participated in meetings with the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank as a representative of Hamas.
Youssef – who was last arrested by the occupation in October 2023 – was among the movement’s leaders who were deported by Israel to Marj al-Zuhur on the Lebanese border in 1992, and he spent a full year there.
Israel had previously arrested Youssef several times and released him the last time in July 2020 after 16 months he also spent in administrative detention.
Since October 8, 2023, the Israeli escalation in the occupied West Bank has resulted in the death of 1,169 Palestinians and the injury of 12,666 others, in addition to the arrest of about 23,000 and the displacement of 33,000.
There are about 9,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, including 360 children and 95 female prisoners, and they suffer torture, starvation, and medical neglect, killing dozens of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations.
