[IsraelTimes] Senior terror group official Moussa Abu Marzouk also says Alexander Trufanov will be released ‘in the near future’ during first phase
Senior Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
official Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Monday that Maxim Herkin, kidnapped by Gazook bully boyz from the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, will be released as a priority in the second stage of the deal.
Abu Marzouk was in Moscow along with a senior Hamas delegation for negotiations at the Russian foreign ministry.
He also told Russian outlet Sputnik that hostage Alexander "Sasha" Trufanov, a dual Russian-Israeli national, will be released imminently.
"One of them, Trufanov, will definitely be released in the near future. He will be released despite the fact that he is a serviceperson, but it was decided to release him at the first stage of the deal," Abu Marzouk said.
Trufanov is a civilian and was kidnapped from his home, but Hamas classifies all male hostages under 50 as members of the military.
"This is our response to Russia’s position on the Paleostinian issue," Abu Marzouk said, referencing Moscow’s warm relations with Hamas and recognition of a Paleostinian state.
Russia has ties to all key players in the Middle East, including Israel, Iran, and Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, as well as the Paleostinian Authority and Hamas.
Trufanov, 28, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, alongside his mother, grandmother and girlfriend. His father was murdered. The rest of his family was released under a previous ceasefire deal in November 2023. He is on the list of the first 33 so-called "humanitarian hostages" to be released in the ongoing 42-day first stage of the current hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Herkin, 35 when he was taken hostage, has a 3-year-old daughter and is the primary provider for his mother and 11-year-old brother.
He went to the Nova festival almost by chance, invited by friends at the last minute. It was the first time he had gone to a rave.
The second phase of the deal is expected to include the return of all the remaining living hostages — including men under the age of 50 and male soldiers — held by bully boyz 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, in exchange for a yet-to-be-determined number of Paleostinian security prisoners and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
Reports have increasingly indicated, however, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seriously entertaining the possibility of resuming the war after the first phase of the deal, as the far-right members of his governing coalition have demanded, rather than continuing on to the second phase.
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