Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation authorities released the second batch of detainees as part of the ceasefire agreement.

The second batch, according to the Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Prisoners Club, includes 200 detainees with life sentences and long sentences, 121 prisoners with life sentences, and 79 prisoners with long sentences. 114 prisoners were released from Ofer Prison to Ramallah, 16 prisoners to the Gaza Strip, and 70 of them were deported outside Palestine.

Among those released was the “dean of Palestinian prisoners,” Mohammed al-Tous (67 years old), from the village of al-Jab’a, south of Bethlehem, who spent 39 years in the occupation’s prisons.

The occupation released the detainee Raed Al-Saadi (57 years old) from the town of Al-Silah Al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, who has been detained since 1989, and is the oldest detainee in the Jenin Governorate.

The occupation also released the brothers Nasser, Muhammad and Sharif Abu Hamid (Naji) from the Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, and they will be deported outside the country. They are among four brothers serving life sentences in the occupation prisons, while their fifth brother, Commander Nasser Abu Hamid, was martyred at the end of 2022, and the occupation is still holding his body to this day.

The occupation forces turned the area near Ofer prison into a closed military zone, prevented the gathering of detainees' families, and fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at them.

Hundreds of citizens and relatives of detainees gathered at the Ramallah Recreational Complex to welcome the 114 prisoners released from Ofer Prison, in the presence of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governor Laila Ghanem and a number of leadership members.