Katie Couric Instagram – 🚨Over three dozen Palestinian prisoners returned home on Friday following their release from Israeli prisons as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Some of the freed prisoners had been accused of minor offenses, convicted in attacks, or were waiting to be charged. According to reporting from the Financial Times, about 300 Palestinians are potentially eligible for release — about three dozen are women, while the remaining 250 or so are males aged 18 and younger. “I have no words, I have no words,” newly released 17-year-old Jamal Brahma told AP News. “Thank God.” Tears fell down his father Khalil Brahma’s cheeks as he brought his son down from his shoulders and looked him in the eye for the first time in seven months. Israeli forces had arrested Jamal at his home in the city of Jericho last spring and detained him without charge or trial. More than 6,800 Palestinians are at present imprisoned by Israel for various security offenses, according to the Israel Prison Service. Human rights groups estimate that almost a third are held under indefinite “administrative detention” with no trial or official charge. According to Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners’ rights group, many of the most recent arrests of Palestinians came during raids across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where protests and violence have surged, including attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers. Israel has said the arrests are part of a counterterror operation against Hamas in the West Bank. Images via Getty