Marah Bakir freed from Ofer prison

Marah Bakir is among the first group of Palestinian women and children released from the Ofer prison as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas on Friday. 

Israel has held Bakir for eight years and placed her in solitary confinement since 7 October, when Hamas launched its raid into southern Israel for nearly seven weeks. 

Footage online showed Bakir embracing her family, who were waiting outside for the Palestinian woman. 

Earlier today, Marah's mother, Sawsan Bakir, told Middle East Eye that the "situation across the homeland" makes it difficult to celebrate, referring to the Israeli aggression in Gaza. 

"I have mixed feelings. I don't know what to feel," Sawsan told MEE contributor Faiz Abu Rmeleh.

"Of course, on the one hand, we are happy that Marah will be free. But our joy is incomplete due to the situation across the homeland," she said.