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Many family members have broken down in tears after seeing their loved ones,
Abu Azzoum said
Look at the difference, oh my God!”
One clip shows a family member mourning the emaciated condition of his released relative, sayingWe have been taken out of suffering. It was as if we have been dug out of our own graves. No prisoner has had the experience of having their own release delayed twice,
he told Reuters news agencyWe were kept naked, water was thrown on us and then they used electricity” to torture
he saidThe level of devastation in Gaza is massive – from homes, to hospitals to schools
Mr Türk said
We are witnessing one of the achievements of the Palestinian people with the release of the seventh and eighth batches of prisoners, which is the largest so far within the ceasefire agreement arrangements,
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a press statement
Hamas has indiscriminately fired projectiles into Israeli territory – amounting to war crimes.”
Mr Türk saidNothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law
said Volker Türk, while presenting a new report on the human rights situation in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to the human rights council in Geneva