Israel released 1,968 Palestinian abductees on Monday, as part of the latest exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance in Gaza. Among them were 250 serving life sentences and 1,718 hostages from Gaza who were kidnapped during Israel’s recent genocide campaign. The freed Palestinians said they were beaten and humiliated, describing the Israeli prisons they were held in as “slaughterhouses”. Accoridng to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 67,000 Palestinians were killed in the two-year Israeli genocide."My children were killed"
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 13, 2025
This was the reaction of a freed detainee from the Gaza Strip after he was told that his wife and children had been killed in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip. After a long wait he came out and found that none of his family were there to meet him. pic.twitter.com/AdA9VOZee5