Freed Palestinian prisoner welcomes Gaza deal

The young bespectacled journalism graduate is a conservative Muslim.

In the living room, on the wall is a picture of her father, Jamal al-Tawil, a prominent Hamas politician in the occupied West Bank.

He is a former mayor of the village of al-Bireh, just outside Ramallah. He has spent more than 19 years in an Israeli jail.

I asked Bushra if she supported Hamas.

“I don’t want to be rearrested,” she said, declining to answer.

I also asked whether she had any sympathy for the three Israeli hostages, young women like her, who were released from more than a year of Hamas captivity in Gaza on Sunday.

“We got to return back home, and they got to go back home,” she said.

“The hostages meant I got out. As long as there are hostages, prisoners like me will get their freedom.”