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Where does Israel detain Palestinians from Gaza?
According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Israel is holding more than 10,000 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank in Israeli jails, as well as thousands more from the Gaza Strip.
Israel has severely restricted rights groups and lawyers from visiting its jails and detention facilities since October 2023, making it difficult to verify the exact number of Palestinians from Gaza in Israeli custody.
The prisoner associations have located Palestinians in Gaza in several facilities including the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert, the Negev and Nafha prisons, the Saharonim detention facility in southern Israel, Ofer Prison in the central West Bank, Nitzan Prison in central Israel, and Naftali and Megiddo prisons in northern Israel.
At least five Israeli soldiers have been charged with torturing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility, including breaking his ribs, puncturing his left leg and tearing his rectum.
Emotional scenes in Gaza as hundreds of Palestinian detainees arrive
Twelve buses right now have arrived at the European Hospital in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
They are carrying hundreds of Palestinian detainees who have been transported to the Gaza Strip by the Red Cross. The Palestinian detainees will undergo a medical check in order to be reunited with their loved ones.
Those Palestinian detainees are coming out from the buses, and we can see signs of exhaustion, signs of the misery and suffering that they have been enduring in the Israeli detention centres. The Red Cross is facilitating the reunion of those Palestinian detainees with their loved ones.
It’s absolutely very emotional and dramatic scenes here.
Live footage from the European Hospital in Gaza shows Palestinian detainees continuing to disembark from buses. They are dressed in white shirts and grey pants, and some of them need help from Red Cross crews to get down from the bus.
As we’ve been reporting, 12 buses have arrived in Khan Younis. Israel is supposed to release some 445 Palestinians taken from Gaza.
Freed Palestinian prisoner receives medical attention in Khan Younis
Hamas says it is ready to start talks on phase two
In a new statement, the Palestinian group says that the only way to release the remaining Israeli captives from Gaza is through “negotiation and commitment” to the ceasefire agreement.
“We renew our full commitment to the ceasefire agreement with all its details and provisions and our readiness to enter into negotiations related to the second phase of the agreement,” the statement said.
Hamas also said that Israeli authorities’ attempts to obstruct the release of prisoners have “failed”, adding that this means Israel has “no choice” but to begin negotiations for the second phase of the ceasefire deal.
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