Israel-based human rights group HaMoked — which provides free legal aid to Palestinians living under Israeli occupation — says the deal to release Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners is “doubly welcome,” Al Jazeera reports.

Among the 300 Palestinian prisoners to be released during the truce agreement, 33 were women, and the rest were 14-18 year-old boys from East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

HaMoked said some are in administrative detention — detention without charge or trial.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society also said that 14 of the women were sentenced, four were detained without charges, and one minor from occupied East Jerusalem.

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