Israeli authorities have released Hassan Yousef, a 71-year-old co-founder of Hamas (the Palestinian Islamist movement that governs Gaza), after more than two years of administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial. Yousef had been held since his arrest in October 2023 and was transferred upon release to a hospital in Ramallah (the administrative capital of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank), where he was met by family members. The release draws renewed attention to Israel's use of administrative detention, a practice long criticised by human rights groups as a tool for holding Palestinians indefinitely without judicial oversight.