Released Palestinian detainees are seen getting off a bus that arrived in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, Al Jazeera reports.

They are met by a jubilant crowd and Palestinian security personnel.

A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being 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 February 8. — Reuters
A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being 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 February 8. — Reuters

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