The

United States Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and superv ...

acknowledges holding three Palestinian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held in

extrajudicial detention Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial. A number of jurisdictions claim that it is done for security reasons. Many countries claim to use administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism ...

in the

Guantanamo Bay detention camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also known as GTMO ( ), GITMO ( ), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in 2002 by p ...

s in

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since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only twenty new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the

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's ruling in

Rasul v. Bush ''Rasul v. Bush'', 542 U.S. 466 (2004), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of ''habeas corp ...

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states a fourth individual, named

Hussein Azzam Born in Palestine in 1973, Hussein Azzam was a former prisoner held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was released in 2004, two years after his capture, without charge and returned home t ...

, is a former detainee at Guantanamo. On September 16, 2009 Hungary agreed to accept the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee from Palestine. On February 24, 2010, Spain accepted the transfer of an individual Guantanamo detainee from Palestine. The former detainee will be free to live and work in Spain, and to travel freely within Spain, but he will not be allowed to travel from Spain to other countries. To preserve the detainee's privacy Spanish authorities did not make his name public. According to Press reports relatives have confirmed that

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, a man from the

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, is the newly released Palestinian.

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Palestinian Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...