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Palestinian health workers say an Israeli strike on a built-up refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has killed two people as a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a third day.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost part, in another serious violation of the ceasefire deal

An Israeli military operation continues in the Jenin camp amid fierce clashes with Palestinian groups, as Israeli tanks killed two people in southern Gaza.

Those released during exchange for hostages include 121 serving life sentences for terror attacks that killed dozens; 70 of the released are exiled to Egypt The post Crowds in Ramallah celebrate as Israel frees 200 Palestinian prisoners appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners, 120 of them serving life sentences, from its jails as part of a ceasefire deal. They ranged in age from 16 to 67. Some were set free into an exuberant West Bank, while those whose offenses were considered too serious were transferred to Egypt.

Nael Barghouti, 67, has spent 44 years incarcerated by Israel, more than any other Palestinian. Jailed in 1978 for killing an Israeli bus driver, he was freed in 2011 in a previous swap but re-arrested three years later and held ever since.

Israeli security forces backed by helicopters have raided a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing at least ten Palestinians and injuring a further 35 people.

Gazans were surveying the vast damage to their neighborhoods on Monday as anxious Israelis awaited news about the condition of the hostages.

The Israeli military says its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour through mountains of rubble looking for bodies of those killed by Israeli bombardments during the 15-month war.

Israel deploys more troops and launches drone strikes on the occupied West Bank as it refocuses its war on Palestine.