Azzam al-Shallalta dropped to his knees and wept at his mother's feet as he arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah with other Palestinian prisoners released under the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday.A jubilant crowd carried Shallalta on their shoulders from the bus that brought him from jail, the freed prisoner still wearing his grey prison tracksuit."My situation was heartbreaking, truly heartbreaking. We pray to God to free all our brothers we’ve left behind," he told the crowd, his head shaved and his face pale and thin under a long red beard.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Crowds cheer, families hug as Palestinian prisoners released
