Buses leave ‘Israeli’ Ofer prison as Palestinian detainees due for release

• Buses left Ofer Prison as Palestinian detainee release is set under the ceasefire.
• Hamas already handed over all living 'Israeli' captives. 

Several buses departed Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank Monday ahead of the planned release of Palestinian detainees under the ceasefire, following Hamas’s handover of 20 surviving ‘Israeli’ captives, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. 

The ‘Israeli’ prison authority said over the weekend that it was preparing detainees who were due for release from two prisons, including Ofer, as part of the agreement.

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On Sunday, ‘Israel’ clarified that it will begin releasing the detainees once it has confirmation that all captives in Gaza have arrived.

Hamas has not yet released the deceased captives.