Increase in Humanitarian Aid and Release of Palestinian Prisoners: Latest Updates

2023-11-26 22:46:31

This Sunday the entry of trucks with humanitarian aid increased considerably.

A bus carrying Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons arrived in the West Bank city center of Ramallah on Sunday night local time.

Previously, the Israel Prison Service had confirmed that it released 39 prisoners and detainees from a total of seven Israeli prisons (six in Israel and one in the occupied West Bank), as part of an agreement between Israel and Hamas in which the militant group also released hostages today.

In the group released this Sunday there were young people aged 18 or younger; two are 15 years old and one, the youngest, is 14 years old.

They were greeted in Ramallah by hundreds of supporters, some waving Palestinian flags, others carrying the Hamas flag.

Some were detained without knowing their position: 16 of those released were serving sentences, mostly for attacks against Israelis, according to information provided by the Israeli Prison Service and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, a non-governmental organization that defends the rights of prisoners.

The remaining 23 released had been held in administrative detention, a widely criticized practice in which the detainee is unaware of the charges against him and his case is not subject to any judicial process.

Humanitarian aid

At least 120 trucks loaded with aid have entered Gaza this Sunday, according to the Egyptian Government.

The trucks carrying fuel and cooking gas headed towards northern Gaza in coordination with the United Nations (UN) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (MLRP), according to Diaa Rashwan, president of the office. of the Egyptian Government, in a statement.

Rashwan said the number of aid trucks is likely to increase in the coming hours.

The MLRP reported in a statement that an aid convoy of 100 trucks had been sent to Gaza City and the northern areas of the territory, with food, water, relief items, first aid supplies and medicine.

A freelance journalist working with CNN in Rafah, Egypt, also witnessed aid trucks continuing to enter the Rafah border from the Egyptian side on Sunday.

Dozens of trucks that entered the border crossing this Saturday were still being processed through the Israeli checkpoint this Sunday afternoon local time or were still unloading on the Gaza side of the border crossing, an Egyptian official told CNN. borders.

The official added that some 129,000 liters of diesel and 80,000 liters of gas crossed the Rafah border crossing from the Egyptian side of the border.

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