CAIRO (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A group of 70 Palestinian prisoners, who were released as a part of the ceasefire agreement over Gaza on Saturday, have been banished to Egypt, where they were received by senior Hamas officials.
Earlier, the Hamas Movement announced on Saturday that a senior delegation from the group, led by chairman of its Shura Council Mohamed Darwish, left for Cairo for an official visit.
The released prisoners will spend several days in Cairo before arrangements are made for their travel to other countries.
The Hamas delegation will also meet with Egyptian officials during its stay in Cairo.
A second group of 200 Palestinian prisoners was released Saturday under a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel after al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas handed over four Israeli female captives to a Red Cross crew.
Televised footage showed the arrival of 114 prisoners in the West Bank city of Ramallah from the Ofer military jail aboard three Red Cross buses.
16 prisoners, accompanied by Red Cross representatives, also arrived at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, while two buses carrying 70 freed Palestinian prisoners arrived in Egypt on the same day.
