Israel released 90 Palestinian detainees on Monday, January 20, a few hours after three Israeli hostages were released by Hamas. Shortly after midnight, the Israel Prisons Authority said that “90 terrorists” had been “liberated” of the Ofer military prison in the occupied West Bank and a detention center in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people followed the passage of the buses carrying the prisoners on a road from Beitunia leading to Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, waving Palestinian flags and others of various Palestinian political movements, including that of Hamas. When the doors opened, a jubilant crowd greeted them with tears of joy, hugs, songs and fireworks. The ceasefire between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip, devastated by more than 15 months of war, came into force on Sunday at 9:15 a.m. (10:15 a.m. in Paris). Follow our live stream.
Three Israeli hostages released. On Sunday, a Hamas leader said that “three hostages” had been “delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross” in Gaza City, then the Israeli army confirmed their arrival in Israel. They are British-Israeli Emily Damari (28) and Romanian-Israeli Doron Steinbrecher (31), captured at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, as well as Romi Gonen (24), kidnapped at the Nova music festival , during the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in Israel which sparked the war in Gaza.
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