{"id":526653,"date":"2026-07-05T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:18:08","slug":"israel-releases-9-palestinian-detainees-through-kerem-abu-salem-crossing-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526653\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel releases 9 Palestinian detainees through Kerem Abu Salem crossing \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel released nine Palestinian detainees it had held from the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem border crossing on July 5,\u00a0Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees were handed over to teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>They were then transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for medical checks.<\/p>\n<p>The released Palestinians were reunited with their families at the hospital, where emotional scenes unfolded as relatives welcomed them back.<\/p>\n<p>Since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Israeli forces have continued carrying out airstrikes, shootings and demolitions across Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has expanded its control to around 70% of Gaza\u2019s territory, confining Palestinians to less than 30% of the strip, according to local estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli war on Gaza, launched on Oct. 8, 2023 with US backing, has devastated nearly 90% of the enclave\u2019s civilian infrastructure and killed more than 73,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260630-palestinian-journalist-says-prison-starvation-medical-neglect-led-to-brain-hemorrhage-after-release-from-israeli-prison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian journalist says prison starvation, medical neglect led to brain hemorrhage after release from Israeli prison<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel released nine Palestinian detainees it had held from the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-526653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}