Meir Mamon
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/ 27 September 2006

Israel frees detained Palestinian deputy PM

Israeli authorities on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, who was among Hamas officials detained after Gazan gunmen abducted an Israeli soldier. ”I should have been free from first moment, but I don’t know why now,” Shaer told the media in English as he crossed from Israel into the occupied West Bank.