00:00 Emily gin is following the story for us
00:03 she's our correspondent in Jerusalem
00:05 hello Emily Hamas released four Israeli
00:08 hostages today what's going on with them
00:10 back
00:13 home that's right they were reunited
00:16 with their families at re military base
00:19 we already saw the footage of them being
00:21 embraced by their parents um they were
00:23 then flown by a helicopter to the Rabin
00:26 Medical Center outside of Tel Aviv where
00:28 they're undergoing medical treatment and
00:30 medical evaluation uh that's also where
00:32 they met other family members such as
00:34 their siblings for example now we've
00:36 already heard as well as well from a top
00:38 medical from a top um official in the
00:40 Israeli Health Ministry about um the
00:43 treatment that that they're receiving
00:44 there uh so far they've gone through uh
00:47 quite an extensive medical evaluation
00:49 that was quote emotionally and medically
00:51 complex but I think it's safe to say
00:53 that for the families it's a huge relief
00:55 in of itself to see their um daughters
00:58 uh come back alive
01:00 right now as part of the ceasefire
01:03 Israel has also released Palestinian
01:05 prisoners what do we know about
01:10 them that's right so for every um
01:12 soldier that Hamas released Israel for
01:15 its part released um 50 Palestinian uh
01:18 prisoners um now um we're talking about
01:21 some 120 of these prisoners are said to
01:23 be um have said to be um serving life
01:27 sentences in Israeli prisons um some
01:29 some were convicted for multiple murders
01:32 including um the killing of Israeli
01:35 civilians um that being said there's
01:37 also some very young prisoners who were
01:39 released the youngest one being 16 years
01:41 old um the oldest one being 69 years old
01:44 and we also know that the most serious
01:46 um offenders didn't actually arrive in
01:48 the occupied West Bank they were flown
01:50 out of they were taken out of the
01:51 country via Egypt to neighboring
01:53 countries such as Qatar and Turkey right
01:56 so you filmed with a young Palestinian
01:59 woman who was part of last week's
02:01 prisoner release let's have a look and
02:03 come back to you
02:05 afterwards name name it was the day Amal
02:09 Shaya had been waiting for after seven
02:12 long months in an Israeli prison she was
02:15 finally released as part of the Seas
02:17 fire deal between Israel and
02:20 Hamas the joy is Indescribable thank God
02:23 almost a week later we meet her at home
02:26 with her family in the occupied West
02:28 Bank she's still getting used to being
02:31 here the memories of the day of her
02:33 arrest still etched in her
02:38 mind when we were taken to the Detention
02:41 Center the four strip searches for
02:43 female prisoners
02:45 began which is a very bad experience
02:48 that Palestinian female prisoners go
02:50 through when entering any Detention
02:54 Center they would do these searches
02:56 daily often late at night they would
02:59 confess at our clothes our personal
03:01 belongings dishes and
03:03 pots Amal was studying journalism in her
03:06 last year at B to University in near
03:09 rala when the Israeli military arrested
03:11 her for what they say was inciting
03:15 violence the occupiers were opposed to
03:17 student activism on the University
03:19 campus even though this student activism
03:22 is officially approved by the University
03:25 Administration for her family it's a
03:27 relief to see her back home having been
03:30 prevented from visiting her for the
03:32 entire time she was
03:34 incarcerated Amal says that was one of
03:36 the worst parts of being in
03:41 prison we'd see our families just for a
03:44 few seconds during the court session
03:47 which was held
03:48 electronically we would only see them
03:50 for very brief
03:52 moments if I tried to communicate with
03:55 them during that time or signal to
03:57 reassure them I was in good health
04:00 the soldier would cut off the
04:02 connection and everything would end
04:04 there it was a feeling of deep
04:07 oppression and
04:09 humiliation reports like these are
04:11 common among Palestinians who were
04:13 released from Israeli prisons according
04:16 to the prisoner advocacy group adamir
04:19 this together with reports of starvation
04:21 policies overcrowding and lack of proper
04:24 medical attention and even when people
04:27 are released they may not be free for
04:30 long all of the detes whether being
04:32 released to the West Bank or to East
04:33 Jerusalem uh they need to uh
04:35 continuously show up for core uh Court
04:38 appointments and in this you know uh
04:40 it's very possible that the detainee
04:42 could be easily targeted and faced with
04:45 uh rearrest basically because with all
04:47 previous um uh C sort of exchange deals
04:51 that we've seen before the detainees
04:53 were um subjected to rearrests even the
04:56 no November 2023 deal um majority well
04:59 not majority 27 of the uh freed
05:02 detainees were subjected to rearrest for
05:04 now Amal is trying to settle back into
05:06 her old life she tells me that she wants
05:09 to get back to her podcast that she
05:12 started at
05:13 University and finish her degree to
05:15 become a journalist herself so she can
05:18 continue telling the stories of other
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05:22 Palestinians of course being arrested
05:24 will not stop us from delivering our
05:25 message from conveying our cause to the
05:28 world but honestly will be more cautious
05:30 in how we deliver the
05:32 message this a reflection of the
05:34 uncertainty many Palestinians face as
05:37 they look to their
05:39 future Emily good reporting there so
05:43 your protagonist was arrested for
05:45 inciting violence are there many other
05:48 released prisoners who were arrested for
05:50 such minor
05:54 crimes the short answer to that is yes
05:57 uh and it is something that a human
05:59 rights organiz ganizations have
06:00 continuously criticized uh Israel for um
06:04 when we look at the women and the
06:06 children who were released last weekend
06:08 as part of the first uh phase of the
06:10 ceas V deal between Israel and Hamas
06:12 many of them were arrested for for
06:14 example what they wrote on social media
06:17 um for participating in protests or
06:19 especially when it comes to kids for
06:20 throwing stones and um the Israeli and
06:23 the human rights organizations even go
06:24 as far as to say that Israel is as in
06:26 fact incarcerating um people um as uh in
06:31 order to have them sort of in their
06:33 prisons as a future bargaining chip in
06:35 when it comes to negations such as what
06:37 we're seeing right now so really heavy
06:39 um accusations there regarding uh the
06:42 conditions under which um the conditions
06:43 under which um Palestinians are being
06:45 arrested um on top of uh the conditions
06:48 of the Israeli prisons themselves that
06:50 the UN also has criticized on multiple
06:52 occasions over the last few years and
06:54 what's important to say here I think as
06:55 well is that what we're hearing from
06:57 Human Rights organizations is that uh
06:59 since the attacks by Hamas on October
07:02 7th uh on 2023 the intensity of the
07:05 arrests and the conditions uh of the
07:08 prisons themselves has rapidly it's it's
07:11 deteriorated incredibly right DW's Emily
07:14 gordin reporting from Jerusalem thank
07:18 you now AMJ shawa is head of the
07:21 Palestinian non-governmental
07:22 organizations Network he joins us now
07:24 from De albala in the central Gaza Strip
07:27 hello Mr Sher some Palestinian prisoners
07:30 released today just arrived in Gaza tell
07:33 us what's
07:36 happening yes they just arrived to the
07:39 European Hospital be have medical check
07:42 after they arrived and uh they are
07:45 waiting for that they can manage to meet
07:48 with their families part of their
07:50 families were killed in this war and
07:53 just to correct what you have
07:55 mentioned it's not they are not the
07:57 criminals who were released today AML
08:00 wasn't committed any crime AML she was
08:04 struggling demonstrating her opinion
08:06 about the occupation so so so she was
08:09 arrested so it's not minor crime it's
08:12 kind what the crime to arrest Amal
08:15 herself and to put her in such
08:18 detention conditions today it's a very
08:21 sad day also for the Palestinians in
08:23 Gaza who are waiting in the crossings to
08:27 be to go back to the destroy
08:30 neighborhoods just now we have been
08:32 informed of the killing of one
08:34 Palestinians who is waiting in Salah
08:37 Street to cross to go back to Gaza City
08:41 after 15 months of
08:44 displacement yes happy to see this
08:47 prisoner swap but there is so many
08:50 injured today because of the Israel
08:52 shoting towards the Palestinians we hope
08:56 that this uh will continue and we have
08:59 to that all parties to be committed to
09:02 end this deal and to have peace again to
09:05 the gazans and on the same time to start
09:09 the Gaza recovery and to save the lives
09:12 of the Palestinians who in bad need for
09:14 that right so Israel accuses Hamas of
09:17 failing to release civilian hostage Abel
09:21 yahood on Saturday prime minister
09:23 Netanyahu now says Israel will not allow
09:25 gazans to cross into the northern Gaza
09:27 Strip what's going on you think
09:31 already I think this issue was uh ended
09:34 by the Israeli declaration that they
09:37 will uh let in tomorrow the Palestinians
09:41 hundreds of thousands Palestinians who
09:43 were displaced for 15 months to move
09:46 through the two streets Salah and rashed
09:50 Rashid it will be by F and already so
09:53 many be families removed their tents to
09:56 be ready and to stay all the night till
09:59 the early morning to move to their homes
10:02 as you know one week ago there was the
10:04 first Swap and uh there was so many
10:07 families in Gaza City they moved to
10:10 their neighborhoods in the north of Gaza
10:13 Strip they found no homes no place to
10:16 stay in no facilities no infrastructure
10:20 mountains of debris and rubel so we wish
10:24 this would continue from All actors in
10:26 order to to apply this agreement
10:29 on the ground and to find an End for
10:32 this suffering right future time would
10:34 have to end it here I'm J sha head of
10:36 the Palestinian non-governmental
10:38 organizations Network thank you very
10:40 much for your time