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Resistance forced Israel to open doors of cells to 'heroic prisoners': Hamas

Buses transporting Palestinian prisoners are surrounded by a large crowd of people celebrating their arrival in Ramallah, occupied West Bank, on January 25, 2025.

The resistance forced Israel to a ceasefire deal which is resulting in the release of 200 more Palestinian “heroic prisoners” serving long and life sentences, Hamas has said. 

Hamas handed over four female Israeli soldiers it detained during Operation al-Aqsa Storm on Oct.7, 2023, to the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday.

The resistance group is now awaiting the release of the 200 Palestinian abductees, who are expected to be released from Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday or in the early hours of Sunday morning.

About 120 of the prisoners are serving life sentences, according to the Gaza Media Office.

Among them is Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Al-Tous, who has been imprisoned since 1985.

“Today, we force the criminal occupier to open the doors of his cells to our heroic prisoners,” Hamas said in a statement.

“This is our pledge to them for freedom, and to our people to continue walking together on the path of independence and self-determination.”

Hamas said despite Israel’s “unprecedented brutal aggression that targeted every inch of Gaza in its barbarity, we preserved the enemy's prisoners, in commitment to our morals and customs, at a time when the criminal enemy tried to get rid of them, and pursued them by targeting and bombing.”

Under the terms of the ceasefire deal reached between Hamas and Tel Aviv on January 19, 33 detainees are to be freed over six weeks in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. 

 


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