After seven weeks of battle, the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas started on Friday morning. Underneath this truce, 39 Palestinian girls and youngsters have been launched on Friday.

Here’s what’s identified about these launched and those that may be launched within the coming days.

Who have been the prisoners launched on Friday?

Of the 39 Palestinians launched by Israel, 17 are minors.

They’re:

• Yousef Mohammad Mustafa Ata from Ramallah
• Qusai Hani Ali Ahmad from Bethlehem
• Jibreel Ghassan Ismail Jibreel from Qalqilya
• Mohammad Ahmad Suleiman Abu Rajab from Al-Khalil
• Ahmad Nu’man Ahmad Abu Na’im from Ramallah
• Baraa Bilal Mahmoud Rabee from Al-Khalil
• Aban Iyad Mohammad Stated Hammad from Qalqilya
• Moataz Hatem Moussa Abu Aram from Al-Khalil
• Iyad Abdul Qader Mohammad Khateeb from Jerusalem
• Hazma Laith Khalil Othman Othman from Ramallah
• Mohammad Mahmoud Ayoub Dar Darwish from Ramallah
• Jamal Khalil Jamal Barahmeh from Areeha
• Jamal Yousef Jamal Abu Hamdan from Nablus
• Mohammad Anis Saleem Tarabi from Nablus
• Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman Suleiman Rizq from Jerusalem
• Zeina Raed Abdou from Jerusalem
• Noor Mohammad Hafez Al-Tahir from Nablus

Zeina and Noor are ladies, the others are boys.

The remaining 22 of the Palestinians launched on Friday are  girls. They’re:

• Rawan Nafez Mohammad Abu Matar from Ramallah
• Marah Joudat Moussa Bakir from Jerusalem
• Malak Mohammad Yousef Suleiman from Jerusalem
• Amani Khaled Nu’man Hashem from Jerusalem
• Nihaya Khader Hussein Sawan from Jerusalem
• Fayrouz Fayez Mahmoud Al-Baw from Jerusalem
• Tahreer Adnan Mohammad Abu Suriya from Nablus
• Falisteen Fareed Abdul Latif Najm from Nablus
• Walaa Khaled Fawzi Tanja from Tulkarem
• Maryam Khaled Abdul Majid Arafat from Nablus
• Asil Muneer Ibrahim Al-Tayti from Nablus
• Azhar Thaer Bakr Assaf from Jerusalem
• Raghd Nashat Salah Al-Fanni from Tulkarem
• Fatima Nu’man Ali Badr from Jerusalem
• Rawda Moussa Abdul Qader Abu Ajmia from Bethlehem
• Sara Ayman Abdul Aziz Abdullah Al-Suweisa from Nablus
• Fatima Ismail Abdul Rahman Shahin from Bethlehem
• Samira Abdul Harbawi from Jerusalem
• Samah Bilal Abdul Rahman Souf from Qalqilya
• Fatima Bakr Moussa Abu Shalal from Nablus
• Hanan Saleh Abdullah Al-Barghouthi from Ramallah
• Fatima Nasr Mohammad Amarnah from Jenin

When and the way have been they launched?

They have been transferred from Israeli prisons to the Israel-controlled Ofer jail within the occupied West Financial institution within the early night.

At 8pm native time (18:00 GMT), they have been launched from Ofer in Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross buses.

Who may be launched subsequent?

Israel has agreed to launch 150 Palestinian girls and youngsters prisoners from its jails in trade for Hamas releasing 50 of the ladies and youngsters taken captive throughout the October 7 assault.

However the Israeli Ministry of Justice introduced an inventory of 300 Palestinian prisoners who it’s contemplating for launch. It’s unclear whether or not this may be a suggestion for a possible second part of exchanges for the reason that deal permits for the extension of a pause in combating by in the future for each 10 further captives Hamas releases.

The checklist of 300 includes 33 girls. Nearly all of the remainder of the names are of boys aged 16-18. Nevertheless, there are additionally boys as younger as 14 on the checklist.

Many of the prisoners on the checklist have been arrested between 2021 and 2023. The prisoners arrested in 2023 have been taken earlier than October 7.

Nevertheless, it additionally consists of people like Shorouq Dwayyat, who was arrested in 2015 and is serving the ninth yr of her 16-year sentence. Dwayyat is presently serving the longest sentence amongst Palestinian feminine prisoners in Israeli jails.

She was 18 when she was arrested and held within the Damon jail in Haifa, accused of stabbing an Israeli settler with a knife. Her household, anxiously anticipating her launch, denies these accusations. “Shorouq is delicate and can’t hurt an animal,” her father, Salah Dwayyat, informed Al Jazeera on the time.

Why are they in jail?

Like Dwayyat, many different prisoners have been convicted of crimes together with carrying and manufacturing knives and daggers. Different frequent offences detailed in Israel’s checklist embody:

• threatening safety
• illegally coming into Israel with no allow
• throwing stones
• supporting terrorism
• associating with hostile/unknown organisations.

“The primary alleged crime for these detentions is stone-throwing, which may carry a 20-year sentence in jail for Palestinian kids,” mentioned a report printed in July by kids’s rights organisation, Save the Youngsters.

Israeli publication Haaretz reported that Israel has refused to launch individuals convicted of homicide however these convicted of tried homicide could possibly be launched.

The place will the Palestinian prisoners go after their launch?

Underneath the deal, Palestinian prisoners can be taken from two Israeli prisons southeast of Haifa, particularly Damon and Megiddo. They may then be taken to Israel’s army Ofer jail.

There, they are going to be handed over to the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross and after they’re obtained, “those from Jerusalem will go to Jerusalem, and those from the West Financial institution will collect in Betunia municipal council the place their households can be ready”, added Fares.

Israel has barred celebrations in Palestinian communities over the return of prisoners.

What number of Palestinian prisoners are in Israeli jails?

There are 19 prisons inside Israel and one contained in the occupied West Financial institution holding Palestinian prisoners.

Earlier than October 7, there have been about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli custody. Nevertheless, following the Hamas assault of October 7, the variety of Palestinians arrested skyrocketed and three,000 extra have been arrested.

Of these arrested after October 7, 37 are journalists. Palestinian prisoner assist and human rights affiliation Addameer reported that almost all of those journalists have been subjected to administrative detention, which suggests they’re held indefinitely behind bars with out dealing with trial or costs.

Addameer additionally reported that the detainees are subjected to bodily violence and medical negligence in prisons. The report cited an instance of a prisoner who suffers from blood illness and bronchial asthma. The prisoner was assaulted, leading to wounds and bruises on his head and eyes. The affiliation reported that this prisoner has misplaced 10kg since his arrest.

Some Palestinian prisoners have been in Israeli jails for greater than 30 years, since earlier than the Oslo Accords have been signed. The time period “deans of prisoners” is typically domestically used to check with them, reported Samidoun, a global Palestinian prisoner solidarity community.

No less than 700 Palestinian kids below the age of 18 from the occupied West Financial institution are prosecuted yearly by way of Israeli army courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military.

Youngsters in Israeli detention usually endure bodily, psychological and sexual abuse, and a few are disadvantaged of meals, water and sleep, in accordance with Save the Youngsters.