Palestinian men gesture from inside a bus after being released from the Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images
Israel on Monday released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners – mostly serving life sentences – and 1,700 Gazans who have been detained since the start of Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023.
In exchange, Hamas released the 20 remaining living hostages – and was to hand over the bodies of 28 deceased hostages – under a peace plan backed by US president Donald Trump.
There are more than 11,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention, according to the Israel Prison Service, of whom 87 per cent have never b
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