Khaled Meshaal’s brother released from US prison after 20 years.
According to the Russia Today news agency, American authorities today released Mufid Abdel Qader Meshaal, the half-brother of Khaled Meshaal, head of the political office of the Hamas movement outside Gaza, after 20 years in prison.
Mufid Meshaal had been imprisoned in American prisons for about 20 years on charges of participating in financing the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and collaborating with the charity organization known as “Holy Land”. The American court had sentenced him to decades in prison along with four other Americans of Palestinian origin, including Mohammed al-Zain, a close associate of Musa Abu Marzouk.
The Holy Land Group was one of the largest Palestinian charity groups in the United States, which was banned in the United States after the events of September 11, 2001.
The group had limited its activities to helping Palestinian refugees, but American courts claimed that the group’s activities were carried out to finance Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group in the United States.
Some international observers believe that the sudden release of Mofid Meshaal could be related to a possible prisoner exchange agreement between the Israeli regime and Hamas. If this claim is true, we will likely hear news about the exchange in the coming days and weeks.