Summary
A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 was released on Sunday after serving 20 years in prison, his family said.
In March 1997, he fired an automatic weapon at Israeli schoolgirls on a trip to the Jordan-Israel border, killing seven of them and wounding five others and a teacher.
He had been sentenced to life imprisonment, which in Jordan is equivalent to 20 years.
Jordan's then ruler King Hussein condemned the attack and later traveled to Israel to offer his condolences to the families of the murdered schoolgirls.
The attack came less than three years after Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty.
Jordan in 2011 had to distance itself from a newly appointed minister's remarks that Dakamseh was a "hero" after Israel summoned Jordan's ambassador.
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