GAZA - Israel freed a member of the Palestinian national football team on Tuesday after being held in jail without trial for three years, during which he staged an intermittent four-month hunger strike in protest the Palestinian officials.
Mahmoud al-Sarsak, 25, is accused of having acted in Islamic Jihad terrorist group, has been home to a hero's welcome Islamist ruled Gaza.
The football legend Eric Cantona and other international celebrities signed a letter calling attention to the situation Sarsak. Joseph Blatter, president of the FIFA World Cup administration, wrote to the football authorities in Israel to ask for your help.
Islamic Jihad gunmen fired into the air and his fellow athletes were surrounded - pushing a soccer ball in hand - as Sarsak was in hospital in Gaza.
"I thank God and all the athletes in the world," said Sarsak, sip and sip from a bottle of water.
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