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Nonetheless, in December 2004, another extension was approved. However, the judge ruled that barring extraordinary circumstances, further extensions weren't justified.
In March 2005, another judge said "there is room to seriously consider the release of the detainee from administrative detention. However....I am of the opinion that there is room to have the detainee remain in administrative detention for another short period of time."
He added that barring extraordinary developments, holding him longer wasn't justified. In May 2005, a new judge said old material against him didn't justify holding him longer than another month.
He ruled that only a "new" order containing new information or developments can justify doing so. As a result, after three and a half years in prison, Hanatsheh was released.
Nonetheless, the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) manufactured new information it called substantive. On review, a military judge ruled it "does point to details of actions thus far unknown, yet these are insufficient to substantively alter the existing intelligence picture.""The new information does include details which illustrate the detainee's modus operandi during his incarceration, yet a review of preexisting information indicates that some of this activity had already been known, and the rest may be reasonably deduced from the detainee's status as a senior PFLP operative."
In fact, no evidence connects Hanatsheh with PFLP membership or involvement. Saying so isn't proof, or justification for targeting a legitimate nonviolent resistance group. It's founding document said:
PFLP's strategic aim is Palestinian liberation "from Zionist colonial occupation." In addition, it wants Palestinian democracy with Jerusalem its capital. It advocates a state "guarant(eeing) legal rights and equality of opportunity to all citizens, without discrimination on the grounds of religion, sex, belief or color."
Opposing Zionism and imperialism, it also seeks pan-Arab democratic unity.
Israel calls PLFP members terrorists for wanting to live free on their own land in their own country. Popular resistance continues courageously to achieve it.
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