Palestinians cheer as freed prisoners begin to arrive home under ceasefire deal


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  • Monday, 13 Oct 2025

Freed Palestinian prisoners look out of a bus after they were released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

RAMALLAH/CAIRO (Reuters): Joyous Palestinians rushed to embrace prisoners freed under a US-brokered ceasefire agreement as they arrived by bus in the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Monday (Oct 13).

The prisoners were released after Hamas freed the last 20 living hostages taken during the Oct 7, 2023 attacks that precipitated the war in Gaza.

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