Maher Younis, a Palestinian prisoner, was released from an Israeli jail after 40 years.
Maher Younis, a Palestinian prisoner, was released from an Israeli jail after 40 years.
Maher Younis, the second-longest-serving Palestinian in Israeli prisons, was detained in 1983 and found guilty in Israeli courts of murdering an Israeli soldier in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria in 1980 along with his cousin Karim Younis. Palestinian prisoner, embraced freedom on Thursday morning after spending 40 years in Israeli jails, according to the Palestinian News Agency.