‘I’m innocent,’ freed Palestinian rape suspect says after release

As he embraces relatives for the first time in nearly two months, the Palestinian suspect released today due to a lack of evidence tying him to the alleged rape of an Israeli girl declares his innocence.

“I have so much to explain about what I went through,” says an emotional Mahmoud Qadusa, who is mobbed by dozens of Israelis reporters at the Beitunia Crossing, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

“I’m a clean person, I know myself, I was always telling them, I’m not that person. They’ll do what they need. I have nothing to do with what they said about me,” he says.

— Jacob Magid

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