section_path: Ceasefire and hostage/prisoner exchanges/Second exchange (25 January)
section_name: Second exchange (25 January)
paragraph_text: Second exchange (25 January)
  
  On 25 January, Hamas released four female soldiers: Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag; they were brought to a stage in Palestine Square, recorded smiling and waving and handed a bag of items to take back to Israel. In return, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. Upon their release, several of the released Palestinians said they had been tortured, starved, endured beatings and humiliated while in Israeli captivity. Of the Palestinian prisoners, 121 were serving life sentences, some were children, while others were held under "administrative detention" – a practice under which Israel holds Palestinians without trial for years on end, on the basis of secret evidence. Among those included militants responsible for offenses in the First Intifada, and those responsible for the Hebrew University bombing, which killed 9 people. Around 70 of them were released into Egypt.