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    Amid Palestinian joy for freed prisoners lies concern it will be short-lived

    by Fatima AbdulKarim Nov 29, 2023 4 minutes

    Nihaya Abu Al-Humus hugged and kissed her 17-year-old son, Muhammed, over and over again in the family room of their east Jerusalem home as if she hadn’t seen him in a lifetime.

    “This is the dream I prayed for,” said Ms. Abu Al-Humus, cradling her son Tuesday, six months after he had been arrested by Israeli police in a roundup of local youth in his neighborhood in August.

    Reunions like this have been playing out across east Jerusalem and the West Bank this week as Israel released women and children prisoners in return for Israeli hostages freed by Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza.

    The releases have reunited Palestinian families, returned mothers to their children, and

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