Security forces at Ofer Prison in the West Bank are preparing to release the 250 Palestinian terror convicts set to go free later today as Hamas hands over the remaining living hostages and prepares to release the bodies of some of the dead hostages.
Posters hung up on outer walls of the detention facility read: “He who threatens a flood is drowned and wiped out,” referring to “the Al Aqsa Flood,” Hamas’s name for the October 7, 2023, massacre.
Alongside the security prisoners, another 1,718 Gazan detainees arrested over the course of the war will be released back to the Strip, from Ketziot Prison in southern Israel.
Most of the security prisoners currently at Ofer, all of them sentenced to at least one life term for deadly terror attacks, will be transported to the West Bank via the Beitunia checkpoint near Ramallah.
Seven prisoners from East Jerusalem will be escorted by police to their homes, Palestinian outlets report. Another seven East Jerusalemites will be deported abroad.
Families of the East Jerusalemite convicts were reportedly summoned this morning to police headquarters at the Russian Compound in the capital and warned against celebrating their relatives’ release.
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