The Prisoners’ Information Office of Hamas released a list of 200 Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release later on Saturday.
Among them are 121 individuals serving life sentences and 79 with long sentences, forming part of the second batch of the exchange agreement.
Hamas hailed the release as a significant moment, announcing that “a new batch of our heroic prisoners, who have been held in occupation prisons, will be freed today.”
“Today, we force the criminal occupier to open the doors of his cells to our heroic prisoners, and this is our pledge to them for freedom, and to our people to continue walking together on the path of independence and self-determination,” Hamas said in a statement.
“This is one of the immortal days of our Palestinian people, in which it embodies its path and choices, and confirms its rallying around its resistance, and its insistence on continuing on the path of pride and dignity, and achieving its legitimate goals of freedom and establishing its independent state with Al-Quds as its capital,” the statement concluded.
Earlier in the day, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, handed over four Israeli female prisoners to the International Red Cross in Gaza City, in accordance with the ongoing exchange and ceasefire deal.
Among those set to be released today are a number of significant figures, including:
Mohammed Al-Tous (Abu Shadi) (67 years old)
Raed al-Saadi (57 years old)
The Abu Hmeid Brothers
Ayham Sabah (23 years old)
Nour Jaber (from Al-Khalil)
Mohammad Al-Aridah and Iyad Jaradat
Wael Jaghoub
