Greater than 100 extra Palestinian prisoners are as a consequence 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 automotive horns and marching on the street carrying Palestinian flags.
Some within the crowd additionally carried the flag of the Hamas militant group that guidelines blockaded Gaza and chanted in help of Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson of the group’s armed wing.
“I am unable to specific how I really feel. Thank God,” mentioned 17-year-old Laith Othman, who was detained earlier this 12 months on suspicion of throwing an incendiary machine and launched on Friday. “The state of affairs inside (jail) could be very troublesome,” he mentioned as he was carried alongside the road on somebody’s shoulders.
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, through which 1,200 Israelis and foreigners had been killed, in accordance 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 following stage of the operation as soon as the truce ends.
Ismail Shaheen, talking from the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, mentioned he was ready to see his daughter Fatima, who was arrested earlier this 12 months, accused of an tried stabbing.
The 32-year-old laptop scientist, who has a 5-year-old daughter, was shot throughout her arrest. Shaheen mentioned 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 change deal,” he mentioned. “We had been glad 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 hundreds have been killed.”