This comes as part of the occasional releases of prisoners from the Gaza Strip, who have been held for months in Israeli prisons that lack the minimum humanitarian standards, and where they are subjected to torture, according to documented testimonies.
The Prisoners' Office said in a post on Telegram that "the occupation forces released 5 prisoners who arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip," and indicated that those released were transferred to the hospital by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The office stated that among the released prisoners was nurse Tasneem Al-Hams, daughter of Marwan Al-Hams, the doctor who was kidnapped in Israeli prisons and is the director of field hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
On October 2, 2025, Tasneem (24 years old) was kidnapped while on her way to work in Khan Younis, according to the same source.
On July 21, an Israeli special unit kidnapped Dr. Marwan al-Hams while he was performing a medical mission in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The office did not provide details about the health condition of the released prisoners, but former detainees reported that many prisoners are released suffering from malnutrition and injuries resulting from severe physical torture inside Israeli prisons.
Israel released about 1,700 prisoners from Gaza on October 13, as part of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement signed by Hamas and Israel.
The agreement came into effect on October 10, brokered by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey and sponsored by the US President, as part of a multi-stage plan.
Most of those released at that time arrived in poor health, and a number of them spoke of being subjected to torture, starvation, and humiliation inside Israeli prisons.
More than 10,000 Palestinians, including children and women, remain in Israeli prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect that has claimed the lives of many detainees, according to Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations.
The ceasefire agreement ended a two-year Israeli genocide in Gaza that began on October 8, 2023, with support from Washington, which left more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
