Palestinian Mother Reunited With Children After Release From Israeli Prison

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She was first arrested on charges of ‘Incitement and support of terrorism,’ however she was never sentenced. The release was part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, however the family isn’t entirely reunited just yet. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00This is Nida Zegebi, and she has spent the last eight months jailed in Israel.

00:04And this is the joyous moment where she was reunited with her children.

00:08She was first arrested on charges of incitement and support of terrorism.

00:12However, she was never sentenced.

00:14The release was part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.

00:17However, the family isn't entirely reunited just yet.

00:21That's because her husband remains incarcerated by the Israelis.

00:24Zegebi says that they had heard rumors of a possible release while imprisoned,

00:28but they had no definitive answer either way.

00:30That is, until about 10 minutes before she was released,

00:33when the deputy head of the prison showed up and told them to ready themselves to be freed.

00:37With the now-released woman telling Reuters,

00:39He was never nice to us, none of them were.

00:42But he tried to show some humanity at that point.

00:44She was just one of 90 individuals who were traded in a prisoner swap with Hamas.

00:49The Palestinian group released three of their hostages on the first day of the ceasefire,

00:53an agreement which includes aid to Gaza and 2,000 prisoners to be freed.

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