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Crowds Cheer, Families Hug As Palestinian Prisoners Released

Freed Palestinians still wearing their grey prison tracksuits wave to well-wishers as they arrive in the West Bank city of Ramallah for a health check. (Credit: AFP)

Azzam al-Shallalta dropped to his knees and wept at his mother's feet as he arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah with other Palestinian prisoners released under the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday.

A jubilant crowd carried Shallalta on their shoulders from the bus that brought him from jail, the freed prisoner still wearing his grey prison tracksuit.

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