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Prisoners are not released until the parole board decides it is safe to do so – and only a fraction of those who have received the sentences have ever been freed.

More than 300 inmates, half of whom were serving sentences for violent crimes, were freed in February and March after prison bosses warned they couldn't take any more arrivals.

Several passengers trapped in the wreckage had to be freed by emergency responders, local authorities said.

Several people trapped at the scene have since been freed, the medical authority said.

The Israeli military's chief of staff vowed to "continue striking Hamas's centres of gravity until it is defeated" and its hostages freed.