The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the conditions of those released from Israeli prisons on Saturday reflect the level of "atrocities" to which they were subjected, noting that most of those released after the war of extermination suffer from health problems.

The club added: "Today, after 183 prisoners were released (...), the prisoners' bodies, their health conditions, and the need for some of them to be transferred to the hospital, reflect the level of atrocities that the prisoners were subjected to over the past period in the occupation's prisons."

He stated in a statement that "the majority of the prisoners who were released as part of the deal, as well as the majority of those released after the war of extermination, suffer from health problems, and many of them had to be transferred to hospitals."

On January 19, a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel came into effect. It includes three stages, each lasting 42 days. During the first, negotiations will be held to start the second and third stages, with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar and the support of the United States.

The Prisoners Club referred to "crimes revealed by the relevant institutions and the testimonies and statements of released prisoners, most notably the crimes of torture, medical crimes, and the crime of starvation."

He continued: "In addition to the systematic torture and humiliation, including severe beatings carried out by the repression units, which aim to kill the prisoners, or cause them injuries and health problems that are difficult to treat later."

He pointed out that there are "more than ten thousand Palestinian prisoners in the occupation's prisons," not including "all the detainees in Gaza, as hundreds of them face the crime of enforced disappearance."

The Prisoners Club stressed that "the time factor is the main factor affecting the fate of prisoners in prisons. The more time passes in their continued detention, the more the level of risks to their fate increases."

He revealed that the occupation "was not satisfied with the crimes it committed against the prisoners, but also practiced organized terrorism against their families, through threats that reached the level of arrest and killing, and storming homes and carrying out acts of sabotage and destruction inside them."

Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli authorities released 42 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank, via a bus belonging to the International Red Cross, as part of the fifth batch of the exchange deal within the framework of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.

The deal included the release of 183 prisoners, 42 of whom were from the West Bank, three from Jerusalem, and 138 from Gaza, including 111 who were arrested after October 7, 2023.

The "Free Flood" deal, in its first phase, includes the release of 1,737 Palestinian prisoners, with this phase extending over a period of six weeks, in weekly batches.