Tehran (ISNA) – Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza have released 39 Palestinian female and underage male prisoners from Israeli occupation prisons — the second batch of prisoners — as part of the temporary truce agreement negotiated based on the conditions set by the Palestinian Resistance and the prisoner swap deal that also includes Israeli captives that were held by the Resistance in the Gaza Strip.
Following over six weeks of the Israeli brutal aggression on Gaza, which was accompanied by a near-complete blockade, a full siege on the residents, and over 1,300 massacres during the short period, the Resistance was able to enforce its initial conditions of not releasing any Israeli captive unless through an indirect prisoner exchange.
Palestinian citizens flocked in large numbers to al-Bireh to welcome the freed prisoners. Despite harassment by the Israeli occupation, celebrations roamed in occupied al-Quds and the cities of the occupied West Bank, where jubilant Palestinians raised Palestinian and Hamas flags, as well as flags of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah.
Freed prisoner Israa Jaabis arrived at her home in occupied al-Quds, where she embraced her son Moatasem for the first time in eight years. Jaabis told reporters that young female prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons are subjected to harassment that cannot be discussed in public.
Israeli forces earlier assaulted journalists at the freed prisoner’s home to forcibly remove them from their location.
On her part, freed prisoner Nourhan Awwad arrived at her home in the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied al-Quds. Before that, Nourhan visited the grave of her cousin Hadeel Awwad, who was killed by Israeli occupation forces eight years ago over an alleged stabbing operation.
In a statement to Al Mayadeen, the freed prisoner mourned the martyrs in Gaza, adding that “the ray of victory emanates from the patience of the people in the Gaza Strip.”
She recounted that Israeli occupation forces mistreated female prisoners before their release, underlining that the situation of female prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons is extremely difficult, as they are isolated from the world and from each other.