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A Qatari jet carrying five US citizens who were held in Iran lands in Doha as part of a prisoner exchange. The United States confirmed a prisoner swap with Iran and said that President Joe Biden had granted clemency to five Iranians jailed or awaiting trial for non-violent crimes. IMAGES
A bus transporting freed Palestinian detainees leaves Ofer prison as Israel prison service says 30 Palestinian prisoners released under truce deal. The announcement came after 10 Israeli hostages returned to Israel under the terms of the deal following their release by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, along with two additional Thai hostages. IMAGES
A bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrives in Beitunia in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel's prison authority said that 33 Palestinian prisoners had been released "during the night" under the terms of a truce deal that returned hostages from the Gaza Strip. IMAGES
A crowd gathers and cheers as a man, recently released from an Israeli jail, arrives in a town outside Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. 39 prisoners were freed by Israeli authorities on Friday, part of a truce deal that also saw some 24 hostages, seized during Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel last month, released. The exchange is part of a four-day ceasefire, offering some relief to residents of the war-torn Gaza Strip. IMAGES COMPLETES VIDI344P64T_EN
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that he spoke to five US citizens freed from Iran after they landed in Qatar in a swap. "Five of the seven, of course, had been unjustly detained, imprisoned in Iran, some for years, two others had been prevented from leaving Iran," Blinken tells reporters in New York. SOUNDBITE
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