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Who are the palestinian terrorists that Israel must release in exchange for the hostages


October 10, 2025
Paola Kafira

After more than two years in the tunnels, without food or light, subjected to physical and psychological torture, will be finally freed the living hostages captured on October 7, 2023. Adding the living hostages to the dead bodies, which will are given to Israel in the next few hours, we are talking about 48 innocent people that Israel has clearly agreed to resume, but in exchange for who?

According to the deal signed yesterday afternoon by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel agrees to release the 1950 Palestinian terrorists currently in Israeli jails.

The information on these terrorists will be more precise in the next few hours, but at the time the data provided by the Jewish State are the following (and are already worrying):

  • 250 terrorists are people sentenced to life imprisonment
  • 1.700 terrorists are citizens of Gaza arrested after October 7 attack but not involved in the attack
  • 22 terrorists are minors who have not participated in October 7 attack
  • the terrorists will be exiled to foreign countries willing to accept them or sent to Gaza (in the previous agreements, some terrorists have been taken by Qatar, Turkey, Gaza, Egypt, and Malaysia)
  • the leader of the Fatah Tanzim of the Second Intifada, Marwan Barghouti will not be released (as Hamas demanded with Abdullah Barghouti, Ahmad Saadat, Ibrahim Hamed, Abbas al-Sayed and Hassan Salameh)
  • Hakim Awad, who murdered five members of the family Fogel in thesettlement of Itamar in Judea and Samaria/West Bank in 2011 and is serving five life sentences will not be released, nor Mahmoud Atallah, a prisoner tolife imprisonment sentenced to a case of sexual exploitation of the prison guards women
  • 360 bodies of Palestinian terrorists will be released from Israel to Hamas

Among the most notorious terrorists from the release include:

Iyad Abu al-Rub, a senior Islamic Jihad commander from the Jenin area, was found responsible for a series of deadly suicide bombings, including the 2003 attack in Sde Trumot, the 2004 bombing at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv, and the 2005 attack at the Hadera market, as well as numerous foiled plots.

Ibrahim Alikam murdered Ita Tzur and her 12-year-old son Efraim in an ambush near Ramallah in 1996. He was initially sentenced to life in prison, released at a later date, and re-arrested a decade after his first detention.

Bahij Badr, 51, led a Hamas cell in Beit Liqya that carried out multiple bombings, including the attacks at Café Hillel in Jerusalem, a bus stop near Tzrifin, and Har Zion Boulevard in Tel Aviv. He is serving 18 life sentences for murdering 18 Israelis.

Jihad Rum murdered Yuri Gushchin, a teenager from the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood of Jerusalem, after kidnapping him three weeks before his scheduled enlistment in the IDF. Gushchin was taken to Ramallah, where he was killed. Rum was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison.

Hussein Rwadra murdered Israeli soldier Eden Atias in a stabbing attack in Afula.

Nasser and Mahmoud Abu-Srur murdered Shin Bet security coordinator Haim Nahmani and were arrested in January 1993.

Nabil Abu-Khdeir, a resident of Shuafat, murdered his sister, claiming she had collaborated with the Shin Bet. He evaded capture for 17 years, during which he fled to Palestinian Authority territory and worked as a lecturer at Bethlehem University before being arrested and convicted.

Raad Sheikh, a Palestinian police officer, took part in the2000 lynching of Ramallah, beating Israeli soldier Cpl. Vadim Nurzhitz with an iron bar. He is serving two life sentences.

(The article with the full list of terrorists will be updated as soon as possible).

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