The Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” announced on Thursday that it has handed over to mediators lists of Palestinian prisoners as part of the agreement with Israel on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange.
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Early Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement on the first phase of his plan to halt the war and exchange prisoners.
Zaher Jabarin, head of Hamas’s “Office for Martyrs and Prisoners,” said: “As part of the ongoing agreement to halt the aggression against our people in Gaza, Hamas confirms that it has submitted the lists of Palestinian prisoners (to the mediators who will transfer them to Israel) according to the agreed-upon criteria within the framework of the agreement.”
He added in a statement: “We await the final agreement on the names in preparation for announcing them to our people through the Prisoners’ Information Office once the procedures and related understandings are completed.”
Jabarin did not provide further details.
Tel Aviv estimates that there are 48 Israeli captives in Gaza, including 20 alive, while around 11,100 Palestinians are held in its prisons under conditions of torture, starvation, and medical neglect, with many killed, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
With U.S. support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 8, 2023, leaving 67,183 martyrs and 169,841 wounded, most of them women and children, in addition to famine that has claimed the lives of 460 Palestinians, including 154 children.
Israel has for decades occupied Palestine and territories in Syria and Lebanon, and continues to reject withdrawal and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on pre-1967 borders.
— (Agencies)
