Hamas says that Israel will release more than 180 prisoners on Saturday in exchange for the three hostages

The Department of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Palestinian prisoners has reported that Israel’s authorities will release on Saturday a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the three hostages that the Islamist group will release within the framework of the agreement reached between the Parts in the middle of the month.

According to the Palestinian authorities, 111 of the prisoners were arrested after the outbreak of the war after the attacks of Hamas of October 7; Another 54 prisoners had received long and the remaining 18 sentences had been sentenced to life imprisonment, the agency’s spokesman Amani Sarané reported.

Specifically, the 72 prisoners arrested before October 7, 2023 are 54 members of Fatá, eight from Hamas, six of Islamic jihad, two of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and two others from the Democratic Front for Liberation for Liberation of Palestine (FDLP).

According to Sources from the Radio of the Army of Israel, among the more than 180 Palestinian prisoners that will be released is Shadi Amuri, member of Islamic Yihad and one of the ideologues of the suicidal attack in Megido in June 2002 in which 17 people died, Most of them Israeli military.

Among the graduates are Ashraf Abu Shrur, whom Israeli justice declared guilty of the murder of a soldier in 2000 near Raquel’s tomb, a place of veneration for Jews, Christians and Muslims that was the scene of attacks in the framework of the second intifada.

Finally, from Israel also highlight the name of Ahmed Asim, a member of an armed cell linked to the Fatá movement and who is accused of perpetrating the murder of an Israeli couple in the West Bank in 2002.

This updated figure of prisoners that will be released on Saturday is more than double that announced above, when Hamas authorities had reported that 90 Palestinian prisoners would be released on Saturday in exchange for hostages offer Calderon, Seith Siegel and Yarden Bibas.

The liberations will take place two days after Hamas and Islamic jihad delivered three Israeli-among them a military-and five Filipinos, after which Israel proceeded to release a new group of Palestinian prisoners, all part of this of the aforementioned agreement of Alto El Fuego.