Hostage swap

Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, a former Palestinian prisoner released by Israel is cheered by people after arriving in Ramallah Thursday aboard buses of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Two buses carrying Palestinian prisoners departed Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank in the late afternoon, according to an AFP journalist, as part of the agreement for a truce in Gaza to exchange Palestinians held in Israeli jails for Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.