Reduction, unhappiness for Palestinian prisoners freed in hostage deal

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For the households of Palestinian detainees freed by Israel below a hostage deal agreed with the Islamist group Hamas, Friday introduced aid tinged with unhappiness on the preventing that’s set to proceed in Gaza after the expiry of a four-day truce.

Thirty 9 Palestinian girls and minors detained on varied prices had been freed below an accord brokered by Qatar that additionally noticed the discharge of 13 Israeli hostages seized by Hamas gunmen throughout their assault on Israel final month.

Greater than 100 extra Palestinian prisoners are on account of be launched over the approaching 4 days and extra could also be freed if the truce is prolonged.

In Beitunia, a metropolis close to Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution, a big crowd, largely of younger males, greeted freed prisoners by cheering, honking automobile horns and marching on the street carrying Palestinian flags.

Some within the crowd additionally carried the flag of the Hamas who rule blockaded Gaza and chanted in assist of Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson of the group’s armed wing.

“I can not specific how I really feel. Thank God,” stated 17-year-old Laith Othman, who was detained earlier this yr on suspicion of throwing an incendiary machine and launched on Friday. “The state of affairs inside (jail) could be very troublesome,” he stated as he was carried alongside the road on somebody’s shoulders.

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Israeli commanders have vowed to free all of the hostages as they put together to pursue the marketing campaign in Gaza launched within the wake of the Hamas assault, by which 1,200 Israelis and foreigners had been killed, in line with Israeli tallies.

Round 14,000 Palestinians have been killed within the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the bottom operation launched final month and the army says it’s getting ready for the subsequent stage of the operation as soon as the truce ends.

Ismail Shaheen, talking from the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, stated he was ready to see his daughter Fatima, who was arrested earlier this yr, accused of an tried stabbing.

The 32-year-old pc scientist, who has a 5-year-old daughter, was shot throughout her arrest. Shaheen stated he was shocked to see his daughter in a wheelchair when he was first allowed to go to her in jail, months after she was detained.

“Thank God she was launched on this trade deal,” he stated. “We had been pleased that she was going to be launched however solely barely so, as a result of we can’t ignore the dire circumstances of our brothers in Gaza, the place 1000’s have been killed.”

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