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

Israeli authorities have outlined strict conditions for Palestinian detainees from occupied East Jerusalem that are due to be released as part of an exchange deal between Palestinian groups and Israel. 

According to the Palestinian Prisoner Club, which monitors detainees' affairs, the restrictions given to prisoners and their families include a ban on distributing candy as part of family celebrations. 

Additionally, prisoners and their families were forbidden from speaking to the media, holding community gatherings, or displaying any form of celebration. 

Any violation of these conditions would result in a 70,000 Israeli shekels ($18,700) fine, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Club. 

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had previously said he would crack down on any attempt to celebrate prisoner releases in Jerusalem.

According to Israeli media, Ben Gvir told police commissioner Kobi Shabtai to use “an iron fist” against attempts to celebrate prisoner releases.

He also called for the police force to increase their presence near the homes of those expected to be released. 

Israel's minister of foreign affairs, Eli Cohen, condemned comments made by Belgium and Spain's prime ministers at the Rafah crossing after visiting Tel Aviv on Thursday. 

Taking to X, Cohen described the comments made by the Belgian and Spanish premiers as supporting terrorism. 

"We condemn the false claims of the Prime Ministers of Spain and Belgium who are giving support to terrorism, and as a result of their words, their ambassadors will be invited to a harsh rebuke conversation," said Cohen on X. 

"Israel is acting according to international law and fighting a murderous terrorist organization worse than ISIS that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity.

"We will resume fighting after the ceasefire until the elimination of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the abductees."

The mother of Marah Jawdat Musa Bakir, a Palestinian woman set to be freed from Israeli jail, says her joy is "incomplete".

Speaking to Middle East Eye from Jerusalem where she is impatiently awaiting Marah's release, Sawsan Bakir said 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.

Sawsan, who had been waiting for Marah's release for eight years, said Israeli authorities are cracking down on any display of joy over the prisoner's release across occupied East Jerusalem.

But that won't stop her from being happy, she said.

"For us, Farah's mere return is enough.

"We just want to be happy now and we will see what happens later." 

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that it facilitated the release of 24 people from Gaza and transported them to the Rafah border crossing. 

They include 13 Israeli women and children, including dual citizens, along with 10 Thai and one Filipino nationals.

Footage published in Arabic media showed a group of people released from Gaza heading towards the Rafah crossing from Egypt. 

The group released from Gaza today include 13 Israeli women and children along with 12 Thai nationals. 

Israel summoned the ambassadors for Spain and Belgium over comments made by the two countries' leaders at a press event on the Rafah crossing in Egypt. 

Earlier, the Spanish and Belgium prime ministers used a press conference on the first day of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas to call for a permanent ceasefire. 

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said, "Israel has the right to defend itself. However, this right cannot encompass the deaths of innocent civilians, including thousands of children, in Gaza."

Belgium's prime minister, Alexander De Croo, highlighted the need for humanitarian aid for millions of people in Gaza and said, "Everyone in Israel should respect international humanitarian law. As democratic countries, our standards should be high.

"We must do everything to prevent the killing of innocent civilians on both sides and to implement international humanitarian law."

Israeli soldiers stormed the homes of Palestinian prisoners from occupied East Jerusalem set to be released as part of a prisoner swap deal between Palestinian groups and Israel, according to local reports. 

Footage captured by Al Jazeera showed its Jerusalem correspondent and cameraman being manhandled by soldiers as they were reporting outside the home of detainee Amani Khaled Noman Hashem.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir had previously said he would crack down on any attempt to celebrate prisoner releases in Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Detainees Affairs Commission published the names of the first group of Palestinians set to be released on Friday as part of the prisoner swap deal agreed between Hamas and Israel.

The first group includes 24 women and 15 minors. Eleven of them are originally from occupied East Jerusalem while the remaining 28 are from different cities across the West Bank. 

Other groups of around 40 prisoners are scheduled to be released each day for the next three days. 

Here's the full list of women and children to be released on Friday:

Youssef Muhammad Mustafa Atta - Ramallah

Qusay Hani Ali Ahmed - Bethlehem

Jibril Ghassan Ismail Jibril - Qalqilya

Muhammad Ahmed Suleiman Abu Rajab - Hebron

Ahmed Numan Ahmed Abu Naim - Ramallah

Baraa Bilal Mahmoud Rabai - Hebron

Aban Iyad Muhammad Saeed Hammad - Qalqilya

Moataz Hatem Musa Abu Aram - Hebron

Iyad Abdel Qader Muhammad Khatib - Jerusalem 

Laith Khalil Othman Othman - Ramallah

Muhammad Mahmoud Ayoub Dar Darwish - Ramallah

Jamal Khalil Jamal Barahma - Jericho

Jamal Youssef Jamal Abu Hamdan - Nablus

Muhammad Anis Salim Turabi - Nablus

Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Rahman Suleiman Rizq - Jerusalem

Rawan Nafez Muhammad Abu Matar - Ramallah

Marah Jawdat Musa Bakir - Jerusalem

Malak Muhammad Yusuf Suleiman - Jerusalem

Amani Khaled Noman Hashem - Jerusalem

Nihaya Khader Hussein Sawan - Jerusalem

Fayrouz Fayez Mahmoud Al-Bo - Jerusalem

Tahrir Adnan Muhammad Abu Sariya - Nablus

Filistin Farid Abdel Latif Najm - Nablus

Walaa Khaled Fawzi Tanga - Tulkarm

Maryam Khaled Abdel Majeed Arafat - Nablus

Aseel Munir Ibrahim Al-Titi - Nablus

Azhar Thaer Bakr Assaf - Jerusalem

Raghad Nashaat Salah Al-Fanni - Tulkarm

Fatima Numan Ali Badr - Jerusalem

Rawda Musa Abdel-Qader Abu Ajamiya - Bethlehem

Sarah Ayman Abdel Aziz Abdullah Al-Suwaisa - Nablus

Fatima Ismail Abdel Rahman Shaheen - Bethlehem

Samira Abdel Harbawi - Jerusalem

Samah Bilal Abdel Rahman Sof / Qalqilya

Fatima Bakr Musa Abu Shalal - Nablus

Hanan Saleh Abdullah Al-Barghouti - Ramallah

Fatima Nasr Muhammad Amarneh - Jenin

Zeina Raed Abdo - Jerusalem

Nour Muhammad Hafez Al-Taher - Nablus

Israeli forces fired teargas at crowds awaiting the release of Palestinian women and children outside the Ofer prison near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. 

Around 39 Palestinians are scheduled to be released soon as part of a prisoner swap deal between Hamas with Israel. 

Palestinian families are awaiting the release of Palestinian women and children from an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank, as part of the prisoner exchange deal with Israel.

A total of 39 Palestinians are set to be released from Ofer Prison near Ramallah imminently. 

Prisoners originally from East Jerusalem will be transferred to the Israeli-occupied city where they will be freed.  

The first group of Israelis held in Gaza are now in the hands of staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross and are in ambulances on the way out of Gaza through the Rafah crossing, an Israeli official says, according to the Times of Israel.

The Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin says 12 citizens from the country being held in Gaza have been released.

"It has been confirmed by the Security Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that there are 12 Thai hostages already released. Embassy officials are on their way to pick them up in another hour. They should know their names and details. Please stay tuned," he said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Egypt has said that a number of Thai nationals will also be freed from Gaza, alongside the 13 Israeli being held. 

The release of Thai nationals was not part of the deal between Hamas and Israel. The exact number of Thais to be released was not disclosed but there are around 23 being held in Gaza.

It's just past 4 pm in Israel and Gaza, and 13 Israeli women and children taken on 7 October are expected to be released any moment now.

Some 39 Palestinian detainees - 24 women and 15 teenage boys - will then also be released from Israeli jails to the West Bank as part of a temporary truce deal.

More details to follow.

A future Palestinian state could be demilitarised and have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and to Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Friday.

"We said that we are ready for this state to be demilitarised, and there can also be guarantees of forces, whether Nato forces, United Nations forces, or Arab or American forces, until we achieve security for both states, the nascent Palestinian state and the Israeli state," Sisi flanked at a press conference by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.

The suggestions by Sisi would be a huge concession to Israel, which has always demanded that a future Palestinian state would not have a military.