Israel releases former Hamas cabinet minister from prison - Haaretz

Last update - 23:21 17/07/2007

Israel releases former Hamas cabinet minister from prison

By The Associated Press

Israel on Tuesday released former Palestinian Education Minister Nasser Shaer from prison, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

The IDF announced that Shaer had been held under administrative detention - imprisonment without trial - and was released upon agreement that he would sign a statement renouncing his membership in Hamas and declaring he would not hold positions in the Palestinian Authority for Hamas or any other illegal organization.

Shaer is the most senior of 33 Hamas lawmakers arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank following in May.

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Hamas confirmed that Shaer had been freed but said that he was not formally a member of the Islamist group.

Following the capture of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas-affiliated militants last June, Israel has rounded up more than 60 Hamas lawmakers in operations widely viewed as efforts to achieve bargaining chips for negotiations over Shalit's release.

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1.	And the incompetency of our government keeps on rolling..."	21:22	\|	bat yam	17/07/07

2.	"cabinet minister"	23:43	\|	Shmuelshachor	17/07/07

3.	He was wrongly kidnapped	00:12	\|	El-Birawi	18/07/07

4.	10,000 bargaining chips	00:15	\|	Omran	18/07/07

5.	Release of kidnap victim	00:42	\|	Neil	18/07/07

6.	to: Shmuelshachor	00:53	\|	nobodysacred	18/07/07

7.	el Birawi	01:03	\|	Amanda	18/07/07

8.	it seems that Israel	01:13	\|	cool	18/07/07

9.	dear Amanda	02:02	\|	justice	18/07/07

10.	Its official: Israel stupidest nation on erth	02:18	\|	Ben	18/07/07

11.	This young agitator is "the most senior"?!	02:55	\|	Fortuna Benmayor	18/07/07

12.	Locking up the Palestinian Education Minister...	02:57	\|	Maureen Ann	18/07/07

13.	The crawl in Haaretz now says that he has been released	02:58	\|	lakshmi	18/07/07

14.	to #6 another annonimous gentleman...	03:29	\|	Shmuelshachor	18/07/07

15.	Well, that`s one more...	04:53	\|	Silvienne	18/07/07

16.	Not before time	08:42	\|	JW	18/07/07