39 Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons

BY A STAFF REPORTER: A bus carrying Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons arrived in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday evening local time.

Earlier, Israel's prison service confirmed that it had released 39 prisoners from a total of seven Israeli prisons (six in Israel and one in the occupied West Bank) as part of an agreement between Israel and Hamas.

The group, released Sunday, included boys 18 and younger; Two are 15 years old and one is 14 years old.

They were greeted in Ramallah by hundreds of well-wishers, some waving Palestinian flags and others carrying Hamas flags.