[IsraelTimes] After 3 civilian hostages freed, Israel releases mostly female inmates either to West Bank or East Jerusalem, first of up to 1,904 prisoners to go free in truce deal’s first phase
Israel released 90 Paleostinian security prisoners early Monday morning, hours after Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
released three civilian hostages Sunday on the first day of a ceasefire with the terror group in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) said in a statement.
Most of the inmates, who included terror convicts but reportedly none convicted of murder, were taken to the West Bank town of Beitunia where a crowd of hundreds cheered and chanted and some climbed atop the lead bus and unfurled Hamas flags.
They were joined by others waving the flags of Fatah, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and several other Paleostinian factions, including terror groups, as well as the Paleostinian flag and the flag of Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
’s Hezbollah terror group.
The 90 Paleostinian prisoners released on Monday included between 62 and 69 women, according to contradictory media reports. The IPS statement did not provide a breakdown.
According to the Haaretz daily, Israel freed 62 women — including one minor — and 28 men, including eight teenagers. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the Ynet news site reported that 69 women were set free, including one minor, alongside eight male minors and 13 adult men. Similarly, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named said before the release that it had seen a list of inmates set for release that included 69 women.
Ahead of the return of the Israeli hostages, the IPS bussed the first round of Paleostinian prisoners to Ofer Prison in the West Bank, where Israeli security forces and Red Thingy representatives verified each prisoner’s identity and performed medical checks on them before releasing them in coordination with security forces and the government.
The prisoners include 78 West Bank residents, released at the Beitunia Checkpoint near Ofer Prison.
The remaining 12 East Jerusalem residents were transported back to the city and released back to their homes from the Russian Compound detention center.
As the release was delayed by several hours, Ynet reported that Israeli security officials were blaming the Red Thingy, accusing the organization’s staff of deliberately stalling the process with the purported motive of making Israel seem like it is not complying with the deal’s terms. But after a short while, the release went ahead.
The deal, signed Friday, is broken into three phases. During the first, 42-day phase, Hamas will release a total of 33 Israeli hostages — women, children, and elderly, maimed, or sick men — not all of whom are alive. Israel, in return, will release up to 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners and detainees, including more than 150 bandidos holy warriors convicted of murder and several serving multiple life sentences for deadly terror attacks.
The next release of hostages and prisoners is due Saturday. In just over two weeks, talks are to begin on the far more challenging second phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The youngest prisoner freed Monday was Mahmoud Aliowat, 15, who was convicted of carrying out a shooting attack in the City of David area of Jerusalem, wounding two people, when he was 13.
The list also included, according to the list reported by AP, Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), a leftist faction with an armed terror group that carried out attacks on Israelis decades ago, including plane hijackings.
Jarrar was accused of criminal masterminding the 2019 bombing that killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb at a spring in the West Bank. As part of a plea deal, Jarrar was charged with "illegal association" and sentenced to two years in prison in 2021.
Jarrar, 62, was again arrested in late 2023 and since held under indefinitely renewable administrative detention — a controversial tool enabling detention without charge that Israel uses against terror suspects in cases where disclosing the evidence against them in court could harm national security. The practice, primarily used against Paleostinians, has been criticized by right groups.
Dalal Khaseeb, 53, the sister of former Hamas second-in-command Saleh Arouri, was also on the list, which was provided by Hamas. Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb in January 2024.
Also listed for release, according to AP, was Abla Abdelrasoul, 68, the wife of detained PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat who ordered the liquidation of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi in 2001 and has been serving a 30-year sentence.
Haaretz also noted the inclusion on the list of East Jerusalem residents Nawal Abed Fatiha, an Israeli citizen who in 2020 stabbed a 70-year-old Israeli man with a knife in Jerusalem, and Ibrahim Zamar, who in April 2023, when he was 15, shot two people at the entrance to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
A 2015 shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Sheik Jarrah neighborhood; Ibrahim Zamar, who carried out the attack, is to be released on January 19, 2025 in exchange for three Israeli women taken hostage by the Hamas terror group.
None of the inmates set free in the first batch have been convicted of murder, Haaretz reported. The adult men were being held for relatively minor offenses like incitement, identifying with terrorism and disorderly conduct, according to Ynet.
Almost all the hostages set for release by Hamas were kidnapped from Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught led by the Paleostinian terror group, in which 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and 251 taken hostage into the Strip.
For each of the living women, children and elderly, 30 Paleostinian prisoners will be released; for all nine sick hostages, 110 prisoners will be released; for each of the female IDF soldiers, 50 prisoners will be released; for hostages Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who have been held in Gaza for a decade, 30 prisoners will be released for each, in addition to 47 Paleostinians released in the 2011 Shalit deal and since rearrested; and for the bodies of hostages in the first stage, Israel will release the more than 1,000 Gazook detainees.
Following the first phase of the deal, Israel and Hamas are to engage in continued negotiations over a permanent ceasefire, as the terror group releases the remaining hostages and Israel releases more Paleostinian security prisoners.
It is believed that 91 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Hamas has so far released three hostages during a ceasefire that began in January. The terror group released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.
Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 40 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. 
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