Freed prisoners raise Palestinian flags and resistance factions (Reuters)

Palestinians received with mass celebrations the second batch of freed prisoners, as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which included 6 of the oldest female prisoners and 33 children.

The released prisoners arrived in several regiments to the cities of Al-Bireh and Beitunia in the West Bank, as well as to occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday night and at dawn on Sunday, where they were carried on the necks and raised Palestinian flags amid slogans greeting the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance, despite the attempts of the occupation forces to prevent any manifestations of celebration.

With the continued release of Palestinian prisoners, testimonies about the practices of the occupation inside prisons have continued, and repression and abuse have escalated since the Al-Aqsa flood operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on the seventh of last October.

The oldest prisoner in the occupation prisons, Maysoon Al-Jabali, to Al-Jazeera: We were suffering during detention and the prison guards treated us harshly #GazaWar#الأخبار pic.twitter.com/9FMbPu00Y1

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) November 26, 2023

Testimony of the oldest captive

Maysoon al-Jabali, the oldest prisoner in the occupation prisons, told Al Jazeera after her release that prison guards treated them harshly, and that some of the prisoners were beaten, and many of them became ill.

Freed prisoner Israa Ja'abis also said that Palestinian girls were subjected to "unspeakable" practices in Israeli prisons.

Freed prisoner Shorouq Dwayat also said that the prisoners have recently witnessed a difficult phase inside the prison of "repression, starvation, thirst and the imposition of great overcrowding."

She added that although she left prison, she has fears for the prisoners there because of the severe repression, noting that she saw prisoners under the age of 18 inside the prison, the youngest of whom was 12 years old.

Liberated prisoner Wissam: The occupation army told us that we will go out for interrogation, so that the rest of the prisoners in the same cell do not know that there is a deal #Gaza_war #الأخبار pic.twitter.com/wamSqxKv56

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) November 26, 2023

Child prisoners

Freed prisoner Omar Shweiki told Al Jazeera that they had not been given a break to exercise inside the prison for 50 days.

Omar stated that there are many children in Israeli prisons between the ages of 13 and 15, noting that he was 15 years old when the occupation authorities arrested him.

"Joy mixed with pain". Liberated Palestinian prisoner Shorouq Dwayat: I say to the people of Gaza, be patient, and victory is only the patience of an hour#GazaWar#الأخبار pic.twitter.com/vjUPQYPbVg

— Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) November 26, 2023

"Complete crime"

For his part, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Commission, Kaddoura Fares, told Al Jazeera that what has been happening in the occupation prisons since the seventh of last October is not only abuse, but a complete crime.

Before releasing the second batch of prisoners, the Israeli occupation forces suppressed the press and medical staff present at the gate and outskirts of Ofer Prison from the Palestinian side.

They assaulted a number of journalists and forced them to leave, using tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, as they gathered at the prison gate south of the city of Beitunia to receive prisoners' buses.

Source : Al Jazeera