Israeli sources revealed on Friday a list of Palestinian prisoners who will be released as part of a new exchange deal with Hamas in return for the release of several Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip. The list includes individuals described by Israel as “among the most dangerous operatives,” some of whom were previously released in earlier deals and re-arrested during the current war.

According to Channel 7’s Hebrew website, the list includes 250 prisoners, with 100 to be transferred to the West Bank and 5 to East Jerusalem, while the rest will be deported to Gaza or abroad, according to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency.

The report stated that Netanyahu’s government approved in an exceptional phone vote the inclusion of eleven Hamas prisoners instead of prisoners from Fatah, at Hamas’s direct request.

Among them is Ahmed Jamal Ahmed Qanbar, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevah in 2018, who will be deported abroad after his release.

The list includes the following names:

    • Iyad Abu al-Rub, leader of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin, responsible for several suicide bombing operations between 2003 and 2005.
    • Ahmed Kaabneh, who killed two young women in 1997 near Jericho.
    • Ashraf Hajajra, the suicide bomber in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem that killed 11 Israelis.
    • Ahmed Kafina, who stabbed passengers in a taxi in Beit Tikva in 2006, killing and seriously injuring several.
    • Ayman Kurd, who stabbed a policewoman in Jerusalem in 2016, seriously wounding her.
    • Ibrahim Alqam, who killed a woman and her 12-year-old son near Ramallah in 1996.
    • Eiham Kamamji, one of the prisoners who escaped from Gilboa prison in 2021.
    • Baher Badr, a Hamas member involved in several operations in 2004.
    • Ahmed Siyaj, who stabbed a female soldier and tried to seize her weapon.
    • Tarik Hussein, a member of a cell in Tulkarm killed in 2002.
    • Mohammed Imran, Islamic Jihad activist sentenced to 13 life terms.
    • Jihad Rom, who killed an Israeli soldier and was sentenced to life plus 20 years.
    • Hussein Ghawadra, who killed a soldier in Afula in 2013.
    • Riyad Al-Amour, sentenced to 11 life terms for responsibility in the deaths of Israelis.
    • Nasser and Mahmoud Abu Sarour, who killed a Shin Bet official in 1993.
    • Adnan Abayat, a leader in Bethlehem arrested in 2004.
    • Nabil Abu Khdeir, who killed his sister alleging she collaborated with Israeli security.
    • Raad Sheikh, a Palestinian policeman involved in a collective attack in Ramallah.
    • Ismail Hamdan, kidnapped and killed in 2002 near Gilo settlement.
    • Hamdallah Ali, arrested in March at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
    • Nader Abu-Turki, a prominent Hamas activist arrested in 2002.
    • Mohammed Dawood, who threw an incendiary bomb near the village of Hableh in 1987.
    • Ali Hamed, who injured a motorcyclist in a vehicular attack in Tel Aviv.
    • Firas Ghanem, sentenced to nine life terms for killing and injuring Israelis.

Prisoners added to the list at the last moment include Yusuf Zuhour, Qassem Asafra, Murad Adais, Ahmed Qanba, Mohammed Abu al-Rub, Mohammed Abdul Baset Haroub, Raed Abu Zaher, Omar Asida, Mohammed Qawasmeh, Imad Qawasmeh, and Mahmoud Issa.