The Israeli occupation authorities released tonight 42 detainees from the seventh and final batch within the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.

The occupation authorities were scheduled to release the seventh batch of detainees, as part of the ceasefire agreement, which includes 641 strongholds, last Saturday.

37 detainees arrived in the city of Ramallah, where hundreds of citizens and detainees' families received them in front of the Ramallah Cultural Palace and the Mahmoud Darwish Museum Square, while 5 released detainees arrived in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced that its crews in Jerusalem received the injured released prisoner Kazem Zawahra from Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital and transferred him to Al-Hussein Hospital in Beit Jala.

The seventh batch, according to the Prisoners Club and the Commission of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs, includes 641 detainees, 151 of whom are serving life sentences and long sentences, 42 of whom will be released to the West Bank, including Jerusalem, 97 of whom will be deported outside the country, 12 from the Gaza Strip who were arrested before October 7, 2023, and 445 from Gaza who were arrested after October 7, 2023, in addition to 45 women and children from Gaza.