Israel released the first group of 90 Palestinian prisoners, most of them women and children, early Monday morning, the Israeli prison service confirmed, as part of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip which came into effect on Sunday at 9.15 GMT.
His release occurs after Hamas handed over three Israeli hostagesthree civilian women, who are now in the Sheba hospital in Tel Aviv.
The prison service was tasked with rounding up all prisoners on Sunday at Ofer prison, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli security forces and representatives of the Red Cross They verified the identity of each prisoner and performed medical checks on them.
They were then released and A Red Cross team was in charge of transferring 78 of them to the Beitunia checkpointnear Ramallah; and another 12 in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem. According to the Prison Service statement, detainees headed to East Jerusalem will be taken to the city’s Russian Complex, from where they will be released by the Police.
Among those released today are 69 women and 9 minors, in addition to 12 men convicted of minor crimes such as inciting terrorism or disturbing public order
A total of almost 2,000 inmates are scheduled to be released during the first phase of the 42-day ceasefire agreement, when 33 hostages will also leave the Strip.
Of the released prisoners, The first to enter prison, identified as Nawal Mohamed Abdel Fatiha, did so in 2021. They are followed in seniority by two detainees in 2022, and 23 in 2023 and, the rest, throughout 2024, according to the list of prisoners to be released to which EFE has had access.
Among those detained There are also nine minors: eight 17-year-olds and one 15-year-old, identified as Mahmud Daoud Aliwat. There are eight boys and one girl.
Among those released are also Jalida Jarrar, 62, feminist activist and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the sister of Hamas politician Saleh Arouri, Dalal Jaseeb, or Abla Abdelrasoul, 68, wife of PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat.
In exchange for the 90 Palestinian prisoners, las rehenes Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher y Emily Damari They were liberated from the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Gonen, a 24-year-old Israeli-Romanian, was kidnapped during the attack on the Nova music festival, and Damari (the only hostage with British nationality, aged 28) and Streinbrecher (31 years old) were captured at the Kfar Aza kibbutz.
