周一，以色列爆发了庆祝活动，最后20名幸存者含泪团聚人质返回在家里，当公共汽车载着被释放的巴勒斯坦囚犯进入饱受战争蹂躏的领土时，类似的欢乐场景出现在整个加沙地带。
作为结束两年战争的停火协议的一部分，大约与以色列人质同时释放了1900多名巴勒斯坦囚犯。自2023年10月哈马斯发动恐怖袭击以来，其中约有1700名巴勒斯坦人被以色列拘留在加沙在以色列。该协议规定，周一获释的人都没有参与10月7日的活动攻击。
“这是一个难以形容的痛苦之旅-饥饿，不公平的待遇，压迫，酷刑和诅咒-超过任何你可以想象的，”其中一名被释放的囚犯，51岁的卡迈勒·阿布·沙纳布告诉记者美联社回到加沙后。
这些囚犯是从约旦河西岸的Ofer监狱和以色列最大的拘留设施Negev的Ketziot监狱释放的以色列官员称，由该国军队运营。
大多数囚犯在加沙被释放，一些在与以色列接壤的另一个巴勒斯坦领土约旦河西岸被释放。其他人被驱逐出境，送往埃及。
据巴勒斯坦囚犯办公室称，前往约旦河西岸的一名囚犯是Omar Bseis，他在被关押24年后获得释放。
囚犯组织发布了一份录像在Bseis与亲属团聚的社交媒体上，一名女子泪流满面，抓着Bseis微笑的手臂。
数千名巴勒斯坦人挤满了加沙南部汗尤尼斯的街道，红十字国际委员会的巴士载着被释放的囚犯进入该市。视频画面显示，武装人员护送公共汽车穿过城镇，向空中开枪。
视频中可以看到获释的囚犯探出车窗，向欢迎他们回家的人群挥手。有人看到其他人从公共汽车的窗户里闪出和平的标志。
当公共汽车试图穿过拥挤的街道时，一名被释放的囚犯在人群中看到了一张熟悉的朋友或亲戚的脸。人们把那个人举到车窗前，短暂地拥抱了一下被释放的被拘留者，然后汽车继续前行。
被释放的囚犯在汗尤尼斯的纳赛尔医院下车，那里聚集了一大群人欢迎他们。视频显示，当一些乘客出现时，人群中的人们将他们扛在肩上，带到医院门口。
以色列司法部告诉美联社，被释放的囚犯包括250名巴勒斯坦人，他们因几十年前对以色列的致命袭击而长期服刑。
Huge crowds welcome freed Palestinian prisoners back to Gaza
As celebrations and tearful reunions broke out in Israel on Monday as the last 20 livinghostages returnedhome, similar joyful scenes emerged across the Gaza Strip as buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners entered the war-torn territory.
As part of the ceasefire deal to end the two-year war, more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners were released around the same time as the Israeli hostages. About 1,700 of them were Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza since the war began in October 2023, following Hamas' terrorist attackin Israel. The deal specified that none of those released on Monday were involved in the Oct. 7attacks.
"It was an indescribable journey of suffering -- hunger, unfair treatment, oppression, torture and curses -- more than anything you could imagine," one of the released prisoners, 51-year-old Kamal Abu Shanab, toldThe Associated Pressupon arriving back in Gaza.
The prisoners were released from the Ofer Prison in the West Bank and the Ketziot Prison in Negev, Israel's largest detention facilityrun by the country's army, Israeli officials said.
Most of the prisoners were released in Gaza and some were freed in the West Bank, the other Palestinian territory bordering Israel. Others were deported and sent to Egypt.
One prisoner who went to the West Bank was Omar Bseis, who was freed after being held in Israel for 24 years, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Office.
The prisoner organization posted avideoon social media of Bseis being reunited with his relatives, with one woman breaking down in tears and clutching a smiling Bseis' arm.
Thousands of Palestinians crowded the streets of Khan Younis in southern Gaza as International Committee of the Red Cross buses carrying the freed prisoners entered the city. Video footage showed armed men escorting the buses through the town, firing guns into the air.
The freed prisoners could be seen in the videos leaning out of bus windows and waving at the crowd welcoming them back home. Others were seen flashing peace signs from the bus windows.
As the buses tried to push through a crowded street, one of the released prisoners spotted a familiar face of a friend or relative in the crowd. People hoisted that individual up to the bus window to briefly embrace the freed detainee before the vehicle moved on.
The released prisoners exited the buses at Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital, where a large crowd gathered to welcome them. As some of the passengers emerged, people in the crowd hoisted them on their shoulders and carried them to the hospital entrance, the videos showed.
The released prisoners included 250 Palestinians who served long-term prison sentences stemming from deadly attacks carried out on Israel dating back decades, Israel's Justice Ministry told The Associated Press.
