Freed prisoners receive heroes’ welcome in Ramallah

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Masses of people have congregated in Ramallah, celebrating the return of the released Palestinian prisoners, Al Jazeera reports.

The large crowd includes people hoisting Palestinian flags, shouting slogans and documenting the scene with their phones, live footage shows.

They are surrounding a convoy of buses carrying the freed prisoners.

The prisoners, still wearing grey jumpsuits, can be seen smiling and waving to the crowd as they get off the bus. Some embrace people among the crowd and others are hoisted up on the shoulders of jubilant people.

A woman gestures next to a bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners after they were released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 25. — AFP
A woman gestures next to a bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners after they were released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 25. — AFP

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