"Wafa": The Israeli occupation releases the second batch of Palestinian prisoners
The Palestinian News Agency “Wafa” reported On Monday evening, the Israeli occupation forces released the second batch of detainees from “Ketsiot” prison. In the Negev to the Gaza Strip, within the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
Wafa’s correspondent reported that 38 buses and 10 ambulances transported hundreds of released prisoners, where they arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan. Younis.
They were received by a number of their relatives and a large crowd of citizens. A large number of them were taken to the hospital to undergo the necessary medical examinations and were given the necessary treatment. Then they were distributed, each with his family members, to his residential area.
The second batch of detainees includes “154” Prisoners holding high and life sentences, who will be transferred from the Gaza Strip to the Arab Republic of Egypt, in addition to 1,718 detainees from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
This afternoon, the occupation authorities released the first batch of detainees, which includes 96 released prisoners serving life sentences. Al-Alia, from Ofer Prison. West of the city of Ramallah, to the Ramallah Cultural Palace in Beitunia, within the framework of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced this morning that it had received the Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip in two batches, numbering 20, and handed them over to the occupation authorities.
US President Donald Trump had announced, on the ninth of this month, that an agreement had been reached to implement the first phase of his plan. To achieve peace in the Middle East, which he announced on the twenty-ninth of last September, which stipulates ending the war on the Gaza Strip, withdrawing the occupation from it, bringing in humanitarian aid, and exchanging prisoners.
According to prisoner institutions, the number of detainees in Israeli occupation prisons exceeds 11,000 detainees, suffering catastrophic conditions and conditions that include torture, starvation, and medical neglect. While the number of detainees sentenced to life imprisonment reached 350, and those against whom indictments were filed in preparation for the issuance of life imprisonment sentences were 40, and the number of female prisoners was 53, including three from Gaza, two girls, and captured children, about 400 were sitting in “Ofer and Megiddo” prisons, while The number of detainees arrested – without trial – is about 3,380, as of this October.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have carried out genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip, leading to the death of more than 67,869, the injury of more than 170,000 others, most of them children and women, and a famine that claimed the lives of 463. Citizens, including 157 children.
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