Israel releases detained Palestinian woman footballer

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Israel releases detained Palestinian woman footballer

Israeli authorities released a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team after six days in detention in Jerusalem, her mother and police told AFP on Monday.Wissam Halawani said Israeli police released her daughter Rand Halawani, 20, on Sunday evening, with an order to remain under house arrest for five days.Halawani told AFP that she had “gone through very difficult times over the past few days” following her daughter’s detention, and that she now felt “overwhelming joy” after her return home.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.An Israeli police spokesperson told AFP that “the court has ordered that the suspect remain under house arrest,” and stressed that “this ruling does not indicate or determine the outcome of any future legal proceedings.”Police had said last week that Halawani was arrested along with an 18-year-old man in relation to an incident in Jerusalem in which objects were allegedly thrown from a balcony at

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