DUBAI: Israeli authorities have released 42 people from the seventh and final group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first stage of t...
DUBAI: Israeli authorities have released 42 people from the seventh and final group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, the WAFA news agency reported.
According to it, 37 people arrived in the administrative capital of the Palestinian territories on the West Bank, the city of Ramallah. Another five were taken to Jerusalem.
Earlier, Arab TV channels showed footage showing how a bus belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived in Ramallah, where it was met by a large crowd.
The seventh group includes 641 Palestinians, including 151 sentenced to life imprisonment, as well as 445 residents of Gaza, including 45 women and children, who were arrested after October 7, 2023, when radicals from the Palestinian enclave carried out an attack on Israeli territory, accompanied by murders in border settlements and the taking of hostages.
The ceasefire agreement experienced another crisis moment when, on the night of February 23, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Jewish state had decided to postpone the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners scheduled for February 22 until Hamas renounced the ceremonies accompanying the release of Israeli hostages or the handover of their bodies in the Gaza Strip. However, already on Wednesday night, the radicals announced that Israel would release a group of Palestinians who were supposed to be released on
February 22 in exchange for the bodies of the captives.
On January 15, it became known that Israel and Hamas had agreed to release the hostages held in Gaza and introduce a ceasefire in the enclave. The three-stage agreement came into effect on January 19. The first stage will last 42 days, during which Hamas must release at least 33 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
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