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Gazan included among Palestinian prisoners released today
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
The list of 39 Palestinian convicts released today as part of the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas includes for the first time the name of a Gazan resident, Alaa Fathi Abdulhadi Abu Sunima.
Abu Sunima, who will turn 19 in a few days, is a resident of the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. He was arrested in June 2022, for entering into Israel illegally and for possession of weapons/explosive material.
He had previously been detained in November 2021, as he was trying to sneak through the security barrier that separates Gaza from Israel, and was released immediately afterwards.
It is unclear if Abu Sunima will be allowed to cross into the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing, or from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, or whether he will be sent to the West Bank until the end of military operations in Gaza.
The list of Palestinian convicts to be released today also includes 21 residents of East Jerusalem, as well as West Bank Palestinians from Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem (three each), Bethlehem, Jericho, Jenin (two each), Nablus, and Qalqilya (one each).
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