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Mediator Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to ...

11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks. The men in the latest transfer included Shaqawi al Hajj, who had undergone repeated hunger strikes and hospitalizations at Guantanamo to protest his 21 years in prison ...

11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks. The men in the latest transfer included Shaqawi al Hajj, who had undergone repeated hunger strikes and hospitalizations at Guantanamo to protest his 21 years in prison ...

Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah. In mid-September, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin notified Congress that he intended to repatriate the 11 detainees.

One of the detainees transferred was Sharqawi Al Hajj, 51, who spent 21 years at Guantánamo Bay despite never being charged with a crime and who was hospitalized after undergoing a hunger strike ...

Sharqawi Abdu Ali Al Hajj and Abd Al-Salam Al-Hilah. The latest batch of transfers follows the Pentagon’s December announcement that detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi had been resettled in Tunisia.

Attorneys for Shaqawi Al Hajj, 51, said in a statement that their client was flown to Oman this week after spending nearly 21 years in the prison at Guantánamo and more than two years in CIA sites.