After seven weeks of conflict, the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas started on Friday morning. Beneath this truce, 39 Palestinian ladies and youngsters had been launched on Friday.
Here’s what’s recognized about these launched and those that is likely to be launched within the coming days.
Who had been the prisoners launched on Friday?
Of the 39 Palestinians launched by Israel, 17 are minors.
They’re:
- Yousef Mohammad Mustafa Ata from Ramallah
- Qusai Hani Ali Ahmad from Bethlehem
- Jibreel Ghassan Ismail Jibreel from Qalqilya
- Mohammad Ahmad Suleiman Abu Rajab from al-Khalil
- Ahmad Nu’man Ahmad Abu Na’im from Ramallah
- Baraa Bilal Mahmoud Rabee from al-Khalil
- Aban Iyad Mohammad Mentioned Hammad from Qalqilya
- Moataz Hatem Moussa Abu Aram from al-Khalil
- Iyad Abdul Qader Mohammad Khateeb from Jerusalem
- Hazma Laith Khalil Othman Othman from Ramallah
- Mohammad Mahmoud Ayoub Dar Darwish from Ramallah
- Jamal Khalil Jamal Barahmeh from Areeha
- Jamal Yousef Jamal Abu Hamdan from Nablus
- Mohammad Anis Saleem Tarabi from Nablus
- Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman Suleiman Rizq from Jerusalem
- Zeina Raed Abdou from Jerusalem
- Noor Mohammad Hafez al-Tahir from Nablus
Zeina and Noor are ladies, the others are boys.
The remaining 22 of the Palestinians launched on Friday are ladies. They’re:
- Rawan Nafez Mohammad Abu Matar from Ramallah
- Marah Joudat Moussa Bakeer from Jerusalem
- Malak Mohammad Yousef Suleiman from Jerusalem
- Amani Khaled Nu’man Hasheem from Jerusalem
- Nihaya Khader Hussein Sawan from Jerusalem
- Fayrouz Fayez Mahmoud al-Baw from Jerusalem
- Tahreer Adnan Mohammad Abu Suriya from Nablus
- Falasteen Fareed Abdul Latif Najm from Nablus
- Walaa Khaled Fawzi Tanja from Tulkarem
- Maryam Khaled Abdul Majid Arafat from Nablus
- Asil Muneer Ibrahim al-Tayti from Nablus
- Azhar Thaer Bakr Assaf from Jerusalem
- Raghd Nashat Salah al-Fanni from Tulkarem
- Fatima Nu’man Ali Badr from Jerusalem
- Rawda Moussa Abdul Qader Abu Ujaima from Bethlehem
- Sara Ayman Abdul Aziz Abdullah al-Suweisa from Nablus
- Fatima Ismail Abdul Rahman Shahin from Bethlehem
- Samira Abdul Harbawi from Jerusalem
- Samah Bilal Abdul Rahman Souf from Qalqilya
- Fatima Bakr Moussa Abu Shalal from Nablus
- Hanan Saleh Abdullah al-Barghouthi from Ramallah
- Fatima Nasr Mohammad Amarnah from Jenin
When and the way had been they launched?
They had been transferred from Israeli prisons to the Israel-controlled Ofer jail within the occupied West Financial institution within the early night.
At 8pm native time (18:00 GMT), they were released from Ofer in Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross buses.
Who is likely to be launched subsequent?
Israel has agreed to launch 150 Palestinian ladies and youngsters prisoners from its jails in trade for Hamas releasing 50 of the ladies and youngsters taken captive in the course of the October 7 attack.
However the Israeli Ministry of Justice introduced an inventory of 300 Palestinian prisoners who it’s contemplating for launch. It’s unclear whether or not this is likely to be a suggestion for a possible second part of exchanges because the deal allows for the extension of a pause in combating by in the future for each 10 extra captives Hamas releases.
The listing of 300 contains 33 ladies. The vast majority of the remainder of the names are of boys aged 16-18. Nevertheless, there are additionally boys as younger as 14 on the listing.
Many of the prisoners on the listing had been arrested between 2021 and 2023. The prisoners arrested in 2023 had been taken earlier than October 7.
Nevertheless, it additionally contains people like Shorouq Dwayyat, who was arrested in 2015 and is serving the ninth 12 months of her 16-year sentence. Dwayyat is at present serving the longest sentence amongst Palestinian feminine prisoners in Israeli jails.
She was 18 when she was arrested and held within the Damon jail in Haifa, accused of stabbing an Israeli settler with a knife. Her household, anxiously anticipating her launch, denies these accusations. “Shorouq is delicate and cannot harm an animal,” her father, Salah Dwayyat, told Al Jazeera on the time.
Why are they in jail?
Like Dwayyat, many different prisoners have been convicted of crimes together with carrying and manufacturing knives and daggers. Different widespread offences detailed in Israel’s listing embody:
- threatening safety
- illegally coming into Israel and not using a allow
- throwing stones
- supporting terrorism
- associating with hostile/unknown organisations.
“The main alleged crime for these detentions is stone-throwing, which can carry a 20-year sentence in prison for Palestinian children,” said a report printed in July by youngsters’s rights organisation, Save the Youngsters.
Israeli publication Haaretz reported that Israel has refused to launch individuals convicted of homicide however these convicted of tried homicide might be launched.
The place will the Palestinian prisoners go after their launch?
Beneath the deal, Palestinian prisoners will probably be taken from two Israeli prisons southeast of Haifa, specifically Damon and Megiddo. They are going to then be taken to Israel’s navy Ofer jail.
There, they are going to be handed over to the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross and after they’re obtained, “the ones from Jerusalem will go to Jerusalem, and the ones from the West Bank will gather in Betunia municipal council where their families will be waiting”, added Fares.
Israel has barred celebrations in Palestinian communities over the return of prisoners.
What number of Palestinian prisoners are in Israeli jails?
There are 19 prisons inside Israel and one contained in the occupied West Financial institution holding Palestinian prisoners.
Earlier than October 7, there have been about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli custody. Nevertheless, following the Hamas assault of October 7, the variety of Palestinians arrested skyrocketed and three,000 extra had been arrested.
Of these arrested after October 7, 37 are journalists. Palestinian prisoner assist and human rights affiliation Addameer reported that the majority of those journalists had been subjected to administrative detention, which suggests they’re held indefinitely behind bars with out going through trial or fees.
Addameer additionally reported that the detainees are subjected to bodily violence and medical negligence in prisons. The report cited an instance of a prisoner who suffers from blood illness and bronchial asthma. The prisoner was assaulted, leading to wounds and bruises on his head and eyes. The affiliation reported that this prisoner has misplaced 10kg since his arrest.
Some Palestinian prisoners have been in Israeli jails for greater than 30 years, since earlier than the Oslo Accords had been signed. The time period “deans of prisoners” is usually domestically used to seek advice from them, reported Samidoun, a world Palestinian prisoner solidarity community.
At the very least 700 Palestinian youngsters beneath the age of 18 from the occupied West Financial institution are prosecuted yearly by way of Israeli navy courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military.
Youngsters in Israeli detention usually endure bodily, psychological and sexual abuse, and a few are disadvantaged of meals, water and sleep, in accordance with Save the Youngsters.
