This first phase starts tomorrow, Sunday, and they will conduct exchanges every weekend for six weeks. The second phase will begin 16 days after the ceasefire comes into effect.
The Israeli government plans to release 1904 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 hostages of Gaza during the first phase of six weeks of exchange accompanying the start, tomorrow, Sunday, of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, although the Palestinian Authority government has not yet wanted to confirm this point and has explained that it will only provide exact data once the exchanges take place. prisoners to be released over the next 42 days include 1,167 Palestinians held since October 7, 2023, plus another 737 previously held prisoners, including 22 with “serious blood crimes”, including, for example, the former commander of the armed wing of the Palestinian party Al Fatah in Jenin, West Bank, Zakaria al Zubaidiaccording to the list published by the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In return, the Islamist movement Hamas agrees to release 33 of the 98 hostages held by the Palestinian militias in this first phase, starting with the transfer to their families this Sunday. three Israeli soldiers, at the beginning of a trickle of releases during every Saturday or Sunday and which will culminate in the sixth week, with the release of 14 hostages, explains the Times of Israel.
For every life of women, children and the elderly, thirty Palestinian prisoners will be released; Of the nine sick hostages, 110 prisoners will be released; For every Israeli female soldier, 50 prisoners will be released; for hostages Avera Mengistu and Hisham al Sayed – who have been held captive in Gaza for a decade – 30 prisoners each will be released, in addition to the 47 Palestinians released and rearrested in a previous deal in 2011. that Hamas returns in this first phase, Israel will release the more than 1,000 named prisoners from Gaza. Another 65 people are in Hamas control, many of whom are also no longer alive, and could be transferred as part of a second phase of an agreement for which, once finalized, negotiations will begin 16 days after entry into force of the ceasefire – would also include a permanent cessation of hostilities in Gaza.
Source: EITB
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