🚨 "Israel" refused to release two detained Palestinian doctors, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Dr. Marwan Abu Hams, as part of the ceasefire agreement. A Hamas official confirmed the refusal to CNN.

Dr. Abu Safiya was kidnapped from Kamal Adwan Hospital last December after he refused to leave his patients during a raid. He has reportedly lost over 40 kg and suffered severe beatings while held in "Ofer" prison.

Dr. Marwan Abu Hams was kidnapped by an undercover "israeli" unit in July.

2,000 prisoners are expected to be released on Monday, including 250 with life sentences. Over 28 medical professionals remain in "israeli" custody.

The Khan Younis Municipality announced Saturday that 85% of the city has been destroyed by "Israel’s" war, leaving behind more than 400,000 tons of rubble choking streets and neighborhoods.

The mayor detailed catastrophic damage to infrastructure:
- 300 km of water networks have been completely destroyed
- 75% of the city’s sewage system has sustained severe damage

The Khan Younis municipality is also facing more than 350,000 tons of accumulated waste.

Only nine municipal teams remain operational, struggling to clear blocked roads and critical access points as fuel shortages threaten to halt operations entirely. The mayor called for urgent international support, stressing the need for heavy machinery and new power generators to replace those destroyed by Israeli occupation forces.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs announced that 1,968 Palestinian detainees were freed from Israeli occupation prisons, including 250 individuals serving life sentences.

The release, part of phase one of Trump's ceasefire plan, also included a number of detainees serving long-term terms, as well as 1,718 detainees from the Gaza Strip who were kidnapped after "Israel's" war.

The commission stated that scenes of the freed detainees provide further proof of the brutality and crimes inflicted on thousands of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

Bassem Khandaqji, liberated prisoner, writer, and winner of the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction:

I was sentenced to three life sentences in prison, and here I am today, sent forth as a liberated prisoner from inside these prisons,
Thanks to the steadfastness of our people and their valiant and mighty resistance in the Gaza Strip.

Today, I convey the deepest and most sincere expressions of pride and honor in our great people everywhere, specifically in the Gaza Strip. Peace be upon Gaza the day it fights, the day it remains steadfast, and the day it resists this colonialism.

Peace be upon Gaza the day it resurrects us alive from inside the prisons of the zionist occupation.

Interviewer: Hopefully all the prisoners will be freed Would you like to tell us about the suffering of the prisoners in the prisons?

As much as we suffered as prisoners inside the prisons of the colonialism, all this suffering we endured cannot be compared to the extent of the suffering endured by our great people in the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank, and everywhere.

We, as Palestinian prisoners, were inside the prisons, and even the Palestinian prisoners who are now inside the prisons of the zionist colonialism, they offer the precious and the valuable, and they share with the people of Gaza the same trench in which they defend the rights of our people and in which they stand and form a solid and steadfast rock against all destructive projects aimed at liquidating our cause, displacing our people, and expelling them from their land.
And for this, the prisoners truly suffer inside the prisons of the colonialism, but this suffering merges with the collective suffering endured by our people everywhere.

The moment the released prisoner from Gaza, Haitham Mu'in Salem discovered the martyrdom of his wife, Ikhlas Issa, and their children (Iman, Lian, and Baraa). They ascended in an "israeli" strike on Gaza weeks prior.

Glory to the martyrs.

After 23 years in zionist prisons, Omar Bseis from Tulkarem has regained his freedom.

A steadfast struggler since the First Intifada, Bseis founded a military cell for Saraya Al-Quds that carried out more than dozens of operations against the IOF. Arrested in December 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment, he endured decades of captivity and the pain of losing his mother in 2016, whom he was denied the right to see.

Today, he returns to his family and people, by the orders of the Palestinian resistance.

The two prisoners Nasser and Mahmoud Abu Srour embrace freedom after being released from colonial prisons by the Palestinian resistance and the proud and dignified people of Gaza. They are currently on their way to Egypt where they have been deported — forcibly exiled — by the occupation.

The prisoners Nasser and Mahmoud Abu Srour, originally from Bethlehem, have been detained since 1993.

The two prisoners were among the longest-held detainees, held before the Oslo Accords. Before the release agreement, 21 were still incarcerated, following the martyrdom of revolutionary, fighter, and writer Walid Daqqah on April 7, 2023.

Nasser Abu Srour was arrested on January 4, 1993, and the occupation sentenced him to life imprisonment.

During his years of detention, he lost his father and his mother continued to visit him despite her old age and the illnesses that afflicted her. He was able to complete his studies in prison, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in the same specialty. He published a poetry collection entitled: "About Prison and Other Things," as well as a novel entitled "I Am My Freedom," which won numerous Arab and international awards.

As for prisoner Mahmoud Abu Srour, he was arrested on January 5, 1993, and the occupation sentenced him to life imprisonment. During his years of detention, he lost his father in 2008 and his mother in 2014. He was able to obtain a high school diploma, a degree in political science, and a master's degree in another specialty.

The reception of Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, after his release in the third Toufan al-Ahrar exchange.

Dr. Muhanna is the director of Al-Awda Hospital in Tal Al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip, and he was abducted by the invading genocidal occupation forces while working at the hospital and providing health care under a vicious assault.

After 39 years in captivity, the prisoner from Jerusalem, Samir Abu Nimeh, embraces freedom as part of the exchange agreement won by the resistance and the proud and dignified population of Gaza.

Samir Ibrahim Abu Nimeh, aged 62, is from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the occupied city of Al Quds. He was arrested by the occupation forces on October 20, 1986, and was held under interrogation for nearly two months. The Zionist courts then sentenced him to life imprisonment and he was transferred to Ramon prison.

Abu Nimeh was a dedicated and courageous fighter of the Palestinian resistance, involved in many armed operations against occupation soldiers.

He endured the policy of deliberate medical neglect imposed on Palestinian prisoners by the Zionist occupation. He suffers from pain in his neck and spine. He has carried these pains and injuries since he was tortured during interrogations many years ago.

Lacerations at the base of his neck affect his joints and cause him severe pain. He also has severe foot pain and is unable to stand for very long. He underwent at least six surgical operations during his time in prison and is still awaiting care for other serious medical problems. He has been transferred multiple times to several prisons and detention centers, including the al-Moskobiyeh interrogation center, the Ramle prison clinic, Shatta prison, and Ashkelon prison, where he was currently held prior to his liberation.

Abu Nimeh is among the senior prisoners whose names were repeatedly excluded from exchange agreements by the occupation.

His mother passed away while still waiting for her son’s release.

Today, we salute his freedom — albeit amid forced exile in Cairo — achieved by the Resistance and the Palestinian people of Gaza.