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Buses leave prison as Palestinians expected to be released
Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that buses have left Israel’s Ofer military prison presumed to be carrying Palestinian prisoners.
Freed Palestinian prisoners on board an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) bus after it left Israel’s Ofer military prison, located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the occupied West Bank, early on Monday morning
Israeli authorities confirm 90 prisoners released in swap deal
Israel’s prison service says that 90 Palestinian prisoners have been released as part of the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.
Palestinians welcome loved ones released from prison
This is an important, much-needed moment for Palestinians, for Palestinian families, to be gathering in Beitunia in this moment together.
Singing, chanting, welcoming their loved ones.
Indeed, this is something that Palestinians were looking forward to after more than 15 months of this devastating war on the besieged Gaza Strip. Watching difficult images and videos of their fellow Palestinians being bombarded, killed day in and day out.
And now, they’ve not only seen the ceasefire take effect, but now, also, the exchange deal is moving forward, and we’re seeing families greeting their loved ones.
We’ve seen the bus make its way outside of the Ofer military prison and all the families were gathering near the buses trying to get a glimpse of their loved ones. So yes, they are celebrating, but they’re keeping Gaza and Gazans in their hearts and minds.
Palestinian families and supporters gathered around the two buses to celebrate their release
Who are the first prisoners being released?
Ninety Palestinian prisoners have been released on the first day of the ceasefire agreement.
They are all women or children.
They reportedly include Khalida Jarrar, a politician and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the occupied West Bank who has previously been imprisoned by Israeli authorities on multiple occasions for charges including “incitement” related to her public statements about the Israeli occupation.
According to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, the Palestinians being released also include children, some of whom were imprisoned indefinitely for throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers.
“The list of prisoners, the hundreds of names that have been released, are mostly serving administrative detention, which is a tactic used by Israeli policy to keep people in prison indefinitely without charges,” said Ibrahim.
“These administrative detentions keep getting renewed over and over again.”
There are currently more than 10,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank in Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who were imprisoned by Israel during its war on the besieged enclave is unknown.
Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar is welcomed by Palestinian activists after her release from an Israeli jail at the Israeli Jbara checkpoint, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem on June 3, 2016
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