About 1,000 people demonstrated at the Karkur junction in northern Israel, on Saturday, to demand the conclusion of a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian factions in Gaza, after the army announced the “liberation” of 4 detainees in a special military operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said: “In light of the liberation of the four detainees earlier on Saturday, about 1,000 people demonstrated at the Karkur intersection, demanding that work continue to release the other detainees by concluding a deal.”

According to the newspaper, "The demonstrators raised banners reading joy over the release of the detainees, mixed with sadness and concern for the fate of the other 120 detainees."

Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army announced that it was able to “liberate” 4 detainees in a special operation in the Nuseirat camp.

This coincides with the killing of 210 Palestinians and the injury of more than 400, on Saturday, in a massacre committed by Israeli forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” in response to “the continuing attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people, their property, and their sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.”

During the operation that targeted the Israeli settlements and military sites adjacent to the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Israelis were killed, some of them by Israeli fire. The movement also took dozens to the Gaza Strip to exchange them for thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

After a temporary truce that resulted in an exchange of prisoners from both sides late last year, Tel Aviv still estimates that there are 128 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while Hamas announced that more than 70 of them were killed in random raids launched by Israel, which holds at least 9,500 Palestinians in its prisons. .