'Israel' to release 42 Palestinian women, children today

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
25 Nov 2023 12:45

The truce agreement stipulates an exchange ratio of three to one, with 42 Palestinian prisoners being released and 14 Israeli captives handed over, as per an Israeli official source.

Marah Bakir, right, a former Palestinian prisoner who was released by the Israeli authorities, is welcome at her family house in the east al-Quds neighborhood of Beit Hanina, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. (AP)

Israeli occupation authorities said 14 Israeli captives being held in the Gaza Strip would be released on Saturday in exchange for 42 Palestinian women and children on the second day of a truce deal.

The agreement stipulates an exchange ratio of three to one, with 42 Palestinian prisoners being released and 14 Israeli captives handed over, as per an Israeli official source.

This comes shortly after al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Resistance factions in Gaza freed 39 female and underage male prisoners from Israeli occupation prisons, as part of the first batch of the truce agreement and the prisoner exchange deal, which began on Friday and will continue for four days.

Palestinians defied Israeli orders not to celebrate the release of #Palestinian prisoners who were freed as part of an exchange deal between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation.#Gaza pic.twitter.com/Q2Is90rZ5K
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 25, 2023

Most of the Israeli captives released by Hamas are said to be in good health after their release, the hospital receiving them announced. Schneider Children’s Hospital, where four women and four children were taken after their release, said doctors had conducted a preliminary examination and said they were all in good physical condition, The Telegraph reported.

They are staying in a “dedicated and separate complex surrounded by medical and psycho-social teams," the Hospital added.

Scenes of the #Palestinian masses receiving women and child prisoners, who were liberated through an exchange deal signed by the resistance in #Gaza and the Israeli occupation regime.#Palestine pic.twitter.com/glUQp7LKJH
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 24, 2023

A four-day humanitarian truce went into effect in Gaza at 7 am (GMT+2) Friday after a deal was reached between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Resistance on the matter following an Israeli aggression that has persisted for 47 days, leaving tens of thousands injured, killed, and displaced.

The freed Palestinian female prisoners and child prisoners from the "Ofer" Prison arrived in the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, amid a massive popular reception for them. The freed prisoners chanted slogans in support of the Palestinian Resistance and Gaza and raised victory signs.

In the same context, the Gaza Strip witnessed enthusiastic celebrations after the release of the first batch of prisoners of the prisoner exchange deal. In Jenin and its camp, mosques echoed Takbir (glorification of God) in celebration of the prisoners' release.

It is noteworthy that in an attempt to kill the Palestinian people's joy, the Israeli occupation has ordered that no celebrations be held at the freed prisoners' residences.

Senior Hamas official Zaher Jabarin affirmed that the humanitarian truce agreement would not have been possible without the steadfastness of the patient people in the Gaza Strip and its thwarting of the displacement conspiracy and without the heroism of the Resistance that forced the neo-Nazis to comply with its conditions.

A four-day truce for the brutal aggression on #Gaza will take place on Friday.

Here are the truce terms that you want to know.#Palestine #GazaUnderAttack #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/9Jm65K7JfL
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 23, 2023

Elsewhere, Omar Nazzal, the head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, said the "joy of victory is prevalent in Beitunia despite the feelings of pain over the martyrs" in Gaza.