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<article data-history-node-id="430040" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-raids-homes-west-bank-prisoners-set-be-released-deal" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-raids-homes-west-bank-prisoners-set-be-released-deal" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli </a>army has raided the homes of several <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian </a>prisoners in the occupied West Bank whose names were included in the list of prisoners to be released in an exchange deal following the Gaza ceasefire.</p> <p>The raids on Sunday morning targeted the homes of several prisoners who were to be released, as well as prisoners who were to be deported to the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The raids included homes in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarm and Qalqilya.</p> <p>Israel agreed to release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences and life sentences, and 1,700 prisoners from the Gaza Strip captured during the war, in exchange for Hamas releasing all Israeli prisoners, both alive and dead.</p> <p>Israel has refused to include Palestinian prisoner leaders in the deal, most notably Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmed Saadat, and Hamas leader Abdullah Barghouti, threatening to sabotage the agreement if Hamas continued to pressure mediators to release them.</p> <p>The raids on Palestinian prisoner homes come as detainees are being transferred and Israeli preparations are underway to regroup them in Ofer and Naqab prisons, in preparation for their release to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israel-raids-homes-prisoners-be-released-Gaza-ceasefire-deal">Read more:&nbsp;<span class="field field-title">Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal</span></a></h3> <div alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian Ramallah" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="25f2c562-0565-40c8-a1cd-6c58adb00ff7" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/WEST_BANK_RAID_RAMALLAH_AFP.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian Ramallah" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430025" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-authorities-threaten-palestinian-prisoner-families-troops-raid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-authorities-threaten-palestinian-prisoner-families-troops-raid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli authorities threaten Palestinian prisoner families, troops raid their homes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli authorities have threatened the families of Palestinian prisoners slated for release on Monday, raiding their homes and warning them not to celebrate their return.</p> <p>Israel is set to release 2,000 Palestinian prisoners,&nbsp;including 250 serving life sentences and hundreds of men, women and children seized from Gaza and held without charge. In exchange, Hamas will release the estimated 20 Israeli living captives&nbsp;as well as several bodies of dead Israelis held in Gaza, believed to be 28 others.</p> <p>On Friday, Israel's interior ministry published the names of 250 Palestinian captives slated for release.</p> <p>Several high profile Palestinians have been excluded, including Marwan Barghouti- whose name was <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-barghouti-will-not-be-released-gaza-deal-says-israeli-spokesperson">unilaterally removed</a> from the prisoner exchange list by the Netanyahu's office. On Saturday, a Hamas official told CNN that&nbsp;two detained Palestinian doctors, including&nbsp;paediatrician&nbsp;Hussam Abu Safiya, will not be released.</p> <p>Israeli troops raided the homes of the families of prisoners set to be released in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources. According to reports, troops raided homes in multiple neighbourhoods in Nablus,&nbsp;Balata and Askar Al-Jadid refugee camps, as well as the towns of Salem to the east, and Aqraba and Zeita Jamma’in to the south.</p> <p>Israeli forces also raided homes in Hebron and Deir Samet.</p> <p>Meanwhile, preparations in Israel are under way for the release of the captives held in Gaza. They&nbsp; will be received by members of&nbsp;the International Committee of the Red Cross&nbsp;and then handed over to the army. Medical staff will then give them a checkup and transport them to israel.</p> <p>US President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Israel on Monday and will meet with captives' families.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="429989" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-9500-missing-under-rubble" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-civil-defence-9500-missing-under-rubble" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza civil defence: 9,500 missing under the rubble</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza's civil defence has reported that 9,500 people are still missing under the rubble across Gaza.</p> <p>Its teams have already begun rescue operations, recovering the bodies of some 155 people so far.</p> <p>It added that it has received 75 distress calls since dawn today, and called on the Red Cross to coordinate with Israel to locate missing people as it lacks the resources and equipment to retrieve all the bodies from the rubble.</p> <p>According to the agency, 300,000 displaced Palestinians have arrived in Gaza City since the ceasefire took hold on Friday. People have erected makeshift tents on the rubble, but lack adequate shelter as aid is not due to enter the Strip until tomorrow.</p> <p>Some 700,000 people were displaced from Gaza City and the north by intense Israeli bombardment and raids on the area in the weeks before the ceasefire came into force.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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