DUBAI, November 24. /TASS/. Thirty-nine Palestinian women and children have been released from Israeli jails based on an agreement with the Hamas movement, Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said.

"We <...> confirm the release of 39 women and children detained in Israeli jails thus upholding the commitment of the first day of the agreement," he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

The Israel Prison Service earlier announced that it had received a list of 39 Palestinian prisoners to be released. Under an Israeli-Hamas agreement, they were supposed to be transferred to a jail in the West Bank from where they will be able to return home.

The Hamas movement announced on November 22 that an agreement on a four-day humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip had been reached through the mediation of Qatar and Egypt. The agreement stipulates the release of 50 women and children under the age of 19 who are held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 150 women and children under the age of 19 from Israeli prisons.

The Gaza ceasefire took effect at 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on Friday.