Israel to free 110 Palestinian prisoners in latest Gaza ceasefire exchange

The 110 Palestinians to beryllium released contiguous besides see 30 children and well-known absorption combatant and theatre director, Zakaria Zubeidi.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that 110 Palestinians volition beryllium released from Israeli prisons contiguous successful the 3rd signifier of a ceasefire and captive speech woody betwixt Israel and Hamas.

Eight captives volition besides beryllium released by Hamas and different Palestinian groups, including 5 Thai nationals and 3 Israelis.

Most of the freed Palestinians are expected to get successful the Radana country of Ramallah successful the occupied West Bank astatine astir 12pm section clip (10:00 GMT), the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said.

This volition not see 20 prisoners who volition beryllium sent into exile extracurricular Palestine. The situation advocacy radical besides published a database of the names and ages of the prisoners to beryllium released, which included astatine slightest 30 children.

Among the names included connected the database is Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, a salient erstwhile Palestinian absorption combatant and theatre manager whose dramatic jailbreak from an Israeli situation successful 2021 thrilled Palestinians and stunned information officials successful Israel.

Zubeidi erstwhile led the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is affiliated with the Fatah enactment that controls the Palestinian Authority (PA), and was progressive during uprisings against Israeli concern betwixt 2000 and 2005, The Associated Press reports.

In 2019, aft Zubeidi had already served years successful Israeli prisons, helium was arrested again.

But successful 2021, helium and 5 different prisoners tunnelled retired of a maximum-security situation successful bluish Israel, an flight that helped solidify Zubeidi’s representation among Palestinians arsenic a people hero.

He and the 5 different escapees were recaptured later.

In 2006, Zubeidi established The Freedom Theatre successful the Jenin exile campy – his location successful the northbound of the occupied West Bank – to beforehand taste absorption to Israel.

The theatre, which has brought its archetypal theatre productions connected circuit internationally, provides a originative outlet for section men, women and children to process their experiences surviving nether Israeli concern successful the West Bank.

Violent Israeli raids are communal successful the Jenin exile camp, which is seen arsenic a centre of Palestinian absorption wrong the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces are presently carrying retired an intensive subject cognition successful the camp, which has entered its 2nd week and has killed astatine slightest 16 Palestinians and wounded dozens.

Israel’s subject said connected Wednesday that it had killed 18 Palestinians and arrested 60 successful Jenin and Tulkarem arsenic portion of its ongoing cognition successful the occupied territory.

Thousands inactive imprisoned

The 110 Palestinians owed to beryllium released volition bring to a full of 400 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons arsenic the ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas continues to hold.

In that time, Israeli forces person arrested dozens much Palestinians successful the occupied West Bank, including 12 Palestinians arrested successful occupied East Jerusalem for allegedly violating a prohibition connected “expressions of joy” and “identification with Hamas” during the 2nd merchandise of prisoners past week.

Prior to the existent circular of captive releases, 10,400 Palestinians were being held successful Israeli custody, including much than 3,300 held successful administrative detention without complaint oregon trial.

The records of Palestinian prisoners bash not see Palestinians detained by Israeli forces during their warfare connected the Gaza Strip, of which galore are wellness workers, including Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the manager of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Israeli soldiers detained Abu Safia connected December 29 aft violently attacking his infirmary successful the northbound of the Gaza Strip.

Last week, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights said Israeli authorities had extended a prohibition preventing Abu Safia from gathering with his lawyers until February 6 aft Israel’s Ashkelon Magistrates Court extended his detention without complaint until February 13.

According to a associated connection from Palestinian and Israeli quality rights groups, Palestinian residents of Gaza taken captive by Israeli forces person been held separately from different Palestinian prisoners, including successful “ad hoc, army-administered detention camps, chiefly situated successful the Naqab godforsaken successful confederate Israel”.

“Testimonies from released prisoners bespeak that the torture inflicted connected Gaza detainees has reached unprecedented levels,” the rights groups Addameer, Al Mezan, Al-Haq, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) said past year, pursuing the quality that Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Adnan al-Bursh, had been killed successful Israeli custody.

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