The Israeli prison service says it has freed nearly 2,000 mostly Palestinian detainees as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, AFP reports.
It said in a statement that “1,968 terrorists were transferred from several prisons across the country to the Ofer and Ktziot prisons”.
“After the conclusion of the necessary activities in the prisons and the approval of political authorities, all the terrorists were released from the Ofer prison to (the West Bank) and East Jerusalem, and from the Ktziot prison to Kerem Shalom,” it added, referring to one of the crossings into the Gaza Strip.
