Israel on Wednesday released a Hamas member of parliament from jail, a Palestinian rights sources said.
The legislator Mohammed Abu Teir was released after being held in administrative detention for a year in the Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Abu Teir is originally from Jerusalem, but Israel deprived him from his Israeli identity because he joined the Palestinian parliamentary elections and ran as a candidate representing Hamas, the Islamic movement that doesn't recognize the Jewish state.
In 2010, Israel expelled Abu Teir from Jerusalem to the West Bank.
Abu Teir said he wished for the release of prisoners from Israeli jails and the achievement of national unity and an end to Palestinian division.
By the release of Abu Teir, the number of Palestinian legislators held in Israel goes down to 16, most of them members of Hamas.
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