VOA60 World- Palestinian families celebrated the release of their relatives from Israeli prisons

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Nov 29, 2023
East Jerusalem: Palestinian families in Jerusalem's Issawiya neighborhood celebrated the release of their relatives from Israeli prisons late Tuesday. This is the latest group of prisoners to be freed as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, with 180 Palestinian women and teenagers now freed from Israeli prisons in swaps for hostages.

West Bank: Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank raided the Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday night. Residents said on Wednesday that the Israeli forces demolished an apartment, believing that there was a tunnel under the building. Two children were killed during the raid, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Israel: Drone footage showed the devastation to the Kibbutz Be’eri as first responders briefly returned to the Israeli cooperative community on Tuesday during a truce between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian group, Hamas. More than 100 residents in the kibbutz were killed by Hamas militants on October 7.

Belgium: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday in Brussels that during his upcoming trip to Israel he will see if the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can be extended. Hamas has released 85 hostages during the five-day-old truce, while Israel has released about 180 Palestinian prisoners.

India: The chief minister of Uttarakhand state, Pushkar Singh Dhami, visited a hospital on Wednesday, where he spoke to some of the 41 workers undergoing observation after being rescued from a collapsed tunnel, where they were trapped for over two weeks.