All 1,966 detainees being released from Israeli prisons have boarded buses ahead of their release, an official involved in the operation says.
The detainees include 250 terror convicts expected to go free from Ofer Prison in the West Bank, though apparently only after Hamas hands over the remaining hostages held in Gaza.
Arabic outlets report that Palestinian Red Crescent teams entered the prison to transfer a sick security prisoner scheduled for release today.
Another 1,718 Gazan detainees arrested over the course of the war will be freed and sent back to the Strip from Ketziot Prison, in southern Israel.
They are expected to be taken to Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.
About a dozen masked gunmen dressed in black, apparently members of Hamas’ armed wing, are at Nasser Hospital, along with a growing crowd of Gazans, Reuters footage shows.
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