Samer al-Issawi, who had gone on a hunger strike for eight months in protest to his illegal detention, finally succeeded to have the Zionist regime accept his demands.

Al-Issawi, who is presently at the Kaplan military hospital receiving medical care, signed a deal with the military attorney on his release before his brother and uncle.

According to the deal, al-Issawi’s jail term will end on December 23, 2013, and he will be free to head home in al-Issawiya in the north of al-Quds.

When asked to describe his emotions, Samer al-Issawi said, “I feel like a soldier who has achieved victory in the battlefield.”

“I feel as though insisting on my principles and beliefs, resisting offers from the Israeli regime, objecting to exile, and persisting to return to al-Quds led not only to my freedom, but to the freedom of the Palestinian nation. Not only me, but the whole Palestine gained triumph,” he stressed.

Al-Issawi stated that he has moved within the framework of realizing the right for all the displaced Palestinians to return home. He resembled his victory to fidelity to the blood of the martyrs who realized the deal of prisoner exchange and battled in prisons.

“Samer al-Issawi triumphed…. He will return to his home in the occupied al-Quds,” said Amin Shouman, head of the high coordination committee for prisoners' release, in an interview with al-Alam News Channel.

Al-Issawi had been among Palestinian prisoners released in October 2011 in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

However, he was re-arrested by the Zionist regime nine months later without any explanations and in August 2012 he launched a hunger strike in protest at his renewed detention. He reached a world record of hunger strike and finally succeeded to bring the enemy to his knees.