Mother's anxious wait for daughter's release

Also eagerly awaiting the latest prisoner release is the family of Shorouq Dwayyat, who is also set to be freed today.

Dwayyat was arrested in 2015 and is serving the ninth year of her 16-year sentence.

She is currently serving the longest sentence among Palestinian female prisoners in Israeli jails.

Reporter Faiz Abu Rmeleh is at the Dwayyat family home in Jerusalem and has sent this image of Shorouq's mother, waiting for news about her daughter.

Dwayyat was 18 when she was arrested and held in the Damon prison in Haifa, accused of stabbing an Israeli settler with a knife. Her family denies these accusations.

“Shorouq is delicate and cannot harm an animal,” her father, Salah Dwayyat, told Al Jazeera at the time.