Teenage boys, 59-year-old woman: The Palestinian prisoners listed for release

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An official Israeli list shows the vast majority of Palestinians slated for release under an Israel-Hamas swap deal to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, are teenage boys.

An AFP examination of the names has found that 33 are women, 123 are boys under 18 and 144 are 18-year-old men.

The youngest is 14-year-old Adam Abuda Hassan Gheit from annexed east Jerusalem, who was arrested in May for “hostile sabotage activity, attacking a police officer and throwing stones”.

The oldest is a 59-year-old woman called Hanan Salah Abdallah Barghuti, who was arrested in September for “Hamas activity including money transfers”, it said.

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