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2025-01-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Parades in West Bank, chants in Gaza, Hamas flags in East Jerusalem as terrorists freed
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian crowds hail terror group as Israel frees 200 inmates, including 121 serving life for attacks that killed dozens; one prisoner refuses to leave jail for Gaza, is swapped


..,1 DFLP life sentence

Israel on Saturday released 200 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences for terror attacks that have killed dozens, in return for four female soldiers held by Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, according to two lists published by the terror group.

Hamas’s list of life-term prisoners showed that 70 of them would be exiled. Egyptian media reported that Israel had delivered them to Egypt via 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...
’s Rafah Border Crossing after Hamas released Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Liri Albag.

None of the other Paleostinian prisoners were set to be exiled, according to Hamas’s list of non-life-term prisoners.

Crowds of Paleostinians erupted in joy and chanted praise of Hamas as they welcomed dozens of prisoners who arrived in Ramallah aboard buses.

Stepping off the buses in gray tracksuits, many prisoners were raised onto the shoulders of people waiting, while others walked through the crowd.

"I had no doubt that I would be liberated one day. I was confident of that," said Mohammad al-Arda, sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years over his membership in the 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...
terror group. He was recaptured in 2021 after digging his way out of jail through an improvised tunnel with three other inmates.

"We were in solitary confinement, under pressure and pain. I swear to God that when I saw the happiness of my people I became happy too, a happiness that words can’t describe," he said, after returning to Ramallah.

In the first, 42-day phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Israel is expected to release up to 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners, including 737 serving life terms, in return for 33 Israelis held captive in Gaza.

Naser Dawoud, a Hamas terrorist who spent 21 years in prison serving two life sentences for taking part in attacks on Israel, said he couldn’t believe his name was among those to be freed. "I am a human being and was sentenced for life, I didn’t expect this to happen, there were some efforts before, but this time God blessed us," he told Rooters.

Paleostinian national flags and flags of the Fatah faction that dominates the Paleostinian Authority could be seen in photos and videos from the West Bank. PA forces were reported to confiscate Hamas flags in some cases.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
in the village of Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli jurisdiction, Hamas flags were seen during a celebratory procession.

Before the implementation of the ceasefire-hostage deal, Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the IDF to prevent celebrations and parades by Paleostinians during the releases of security prisoners.

Channel 12 news reported that prisoners freed to Gaza were greeted with chants of "We are the people of Muhammad Deif," referencing Hamas’s late military chief, who was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the Strip in July.

Footage shared on social media showed prisoners deported to Egypt phoning relatives after their release. The former prisoners include some responsible for orchestrating deadly suicide kabooms over the past several decades.

Saturday’s release is the second under the ceasefire, after Sunday saw Hamas free three civilian women in return for 90 Paleostinian security prisoners — mostly women and minors.

The lists Hamas published Saturday showed that three members of the so-called Silwan Squad were slated for release, all of whom were said to be headed for exile: Wael Qassam, Wissam Abbasi and Muhammad Odeh.

The Silwan Squad, named for its members’ East Jerusalem neighborhood, killed 35 people and maimed hundreds in five bombings across Israel between March and June 2002, at the height of the Second Intifada.

Recently released Paleostinian prisoners that were facing life sentences, enter Ramallah as flags from Hamas, Fatah, DFLP, and PFLP wave around them.

The squad’s fourth member, Alaa Abbasi, was not among the 737 life-term prisoners Israel said it would release in the hostage deal’s first phase. At 60 life sentences, he is serving the longest prison term of the four.

Another terror convict listed as going into exile was Samer al-Atrash, a member of a Hamas cell that killed seven people on a Jerusalem bus in May 2003. al-Atrash is one of a handful of prisoners up for release who hold Israeli citizenship.

According to the list, Israel will also exile Mohammed al-Tous. Arrested for murder in 1985, al-Tous, 69, has spent the longest continuous period in Israeli detention of any Paleostinian prisoner. He is a member of the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling, secularist Fatah movement.

Another Fatah prisoner said to be freed was Yasser Abu-Bakr, a native of the West Bank’s Jenin, who will not be exiled. Abu-Bakr was sentenced in 2004 to a cumulative 115 years in jail for arming a terror cell that shot up a Netanya hotel lobby in March 2002, wounding some 50 people and killing a nine-year-old girl. The cell’s members also killed two coppers and a civilian bystander in subsequent shootouts.

Among the prominent bully boyz slated for release later in the deal are Zakaria Zubeidi, the former Jenin commander of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Mahmud Abu Varda, who is serving 48 life sentences for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks, including a 1996 bombing on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 45 people.

Most of the prisoners on the lists published Saturday hail from Hamas itself. Others belong to Fatah, Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, and one of two Marxist factions: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...

and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.

One life-term prisoner was listed as having no affiliation — a 15-year-old arrested on November 2, 2023, whose crime was not detailed. Another 15-year-old, arrested the same day, appeared on the list of non-life-term prisoners, also without affiliation. They were the only two minors on the Hamas list.

Except for the two minors, all prisoners were listed as having been arrested before October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led bully boyz stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Kan news reported that two of the inmates slated for release had refused to board a bus taking them from Ketziot Prison to Gaza. One of the inmates eventually agreed to board, while the other continued to refuse and was swapped with another prisoner.

It is believed that 87 hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas has so far released seven 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 Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.

In addition to those kidnapped in the October 7 attack, 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. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza earlier this month.
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#1 Palestinian prisoner refuses to return to Gaza in ceasefire swap, prefers to stay in prison -report
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