Israel-Palestine live: Israel says 39 more Palestinians freed under truce deal

Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin confirmed that four Thai nationals are among the latest captives released by Hamas, and said that the physical and mental health of all the freed captives is good.

“Everyone is healthy. No one needed urgent medical attention,” Srettha said. “Everyone talks and walks normally. Everyone is glad to be released.”

The country's foreign ministry released photos showing a group of freed Thai nationals meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.

Hamas released 10 Thai nationals on Friday, and now another 16 remain in captivity.

The Israeli Prime Minister's office said early on Sunday morning that it had received the list of captives expected to be released later during the day.

The office said in a statement that the information was relayed to the relevant families.

As we are getting news of the second batch of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons, the health ministry has reported that Israeli military forces killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The ministry said that four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on Saturday in Jenin, where Israeli forces launched a raid.

In Qabatiya, located near Jenin, a 25-year-old doctor was killed outside his home early on Saturday morning, while another Palestinian was killed in al-Bireh, just outside of Ramallah.

At least 229 Palestinians, including 52 children, have been killed in the occupied West Bank since 7 October.

After being released on early Sunday morning, 17-year-old Yaser Zaamiyeh told Al Jazeera Arabic that he and other Palestinian prisoners were placed in appalling conditions under Israeli detention, including being subject to beatings and being given little food.

Zaamiyeh, who said he was jailed at the age of 16 and placed at Megiddo Prison outside of Haifa, told the news channel that "the prison administration was horrible".

"They treated us violently. They've beaten up a lot of people, some of them died in their own [Israeli guards'] hands," Zaamiyeh said.

"Some people's heads were split open in our section of the prison, little children - 10 years old, 12 years old - are being treated with extreme violence," he added.

Zaamiyeh told the reporter that many of the prisoners at Meggido are doing well, but suffer from "extremely difficult conditions".

He said that they are fed dry rice, and are kept in freezing temperatures that prevent them from being able to sleep for more than a few hours a day.

A bus carrying Palestinian children released from Israeli jail arrived in the occupied West Bank early Sunday morning, according to live footage aired by Al Jazeera Arabic, as well as multiple Palestinian news outlets.

The footage showed the prisoners stepping off the bus in al-Bireh, where they were met with a massive crowd cheering them on. Many of the prisoners were placed on the shoulders of members of the crowd and paraded through the street.

The Palestinian boys who have been released are a part of the second batch of Palestinian prisoners Israel has released in exchange for the release of 13 Israelis being held by Hamas.

Israel released a total of 39 prisoners on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, a figure made up of six women and 33 children.

Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, released footage on its Telegram channel showing the release of Israeli captives, who were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Some of the captives were seen smiling to the camera and waving goodbyes to al-Qassam members before being placed into ICRC vehicles.

After entering her home as a free woman on early Sunday morning, newly released Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis told reporters she was incredibly grateful for being taken out of Israeli prison but also felt "ashamed to rejoice when Palestine is hurt".

"We must work to free all prisoners from occupation prisons," Jaabis added.

Israel has released its second batch of Palestinian prisoners, and relatives of those scheduled to be freed are waiting in anticipation to see them returned.

Speaking to reporters after being released on Saturday night, Shorouq Dwayyat said that Israel warned the newly released Palestinian prisoners that they should not celebrate otherwise they could be re-arrested.

"The occupation told prisoners not to show any celebrations and threatened to arrest us again," Dwayyat told reporters.

Dwayyat said that the release of her and others has led to a mix of "great joy" as well as pain, alluding to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza as a result of Israeli bombardment.

“We pray for the martyrs of Gaza and hope that the war will stop,” she said.

Middle East Eye exclusively captures the first moments of Israa Jaabis's release after heavily armed soldiers stormed her home and removed journalists and anyone not considered first-degree relatives.

Israa Jaabis, a 37-year-old Palestinian woman held in an Israeli prison since 2015, has been freed and reunited with her family in their East Jerusalem home. 

Al Jazeera aired live footage on Saturday night of a bus it says was carrying Palestinian prisoners released from an Israeli prison passing in the West Bank town of Beitunia.

The bus was met by large crowds of cheering Palestinians.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that a number of newly released Palestinian prisoners have arrived in Jerusalem.

Israeli security forces stormed the house of Israa Jaabis, a Palestinian woman held in an Israeli prison and who was scheduled to be released on Saturday.

MEE contributor Latifeh Abdellatif, who was reporting from the scene in East Jerusalem, said that heavily armed soldiers stormed the home before Jaabis's scheduled release and forcibly removed journalists and anyone not considered first-degree relatives.

Jaabis, 32, was arrested in October 2015 with burns over half of her body after she and her family say a faulty cylinder of cooking gas burst into flames in front of a checkpoint in East Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities charged her with attempting to detonate a bomb with an intent to harm Israeli soldiers and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Following our earlier report, it has announced that Shorouq Dwayyat, who was jailed in 2015 and had been serving the longest sentence among Palestinian female prisoners in Israeli jails, has been released.

Reporter Faiz Abu Rmeleh is at the Dwayyat family home in Jerusalem and has sent these images of Shorouq being reunited with her mother.

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.

We will bring you more reaction to Shorouq's release soon.

The Israeli government said six adult women and seven children and teenagers had been released from Hamas in Gaza in a hostage deal on Saturday, after spending 50 days in captivity, a statement from the Israeli prime minister's office said.

Hamas said on Saturday that they completed the release of Thai hostages from Gaza following efforts from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to a statement.

"In response to the efforts of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has completed the release of Thai detainees inside the Gaza Strip," the statement said.