Hamas to release four female Israeli forces in exchange for ex-resistance commander
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says a prominent Palestinian commander will be freed as part of the second prisoner exchange with Israel after last week's Gaza ceasefire.
Abu Obeida, spokesman for the group’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said the prisoner exchange will be conducted on Saturday as part of its ceasefire deal with the Israeli regime that was implemented on Sunday.
He announced the names of four Israeli female soldiers, Karina Araiv, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Elbaz, who are set to be released.
The regime has agreed to release as many as 50 Palestinian prisoners for every female Israeli trooper.
Among the 200 Palestinians that the Israeli regime must free tomorrow, is Zakaria Zubaidi, a former commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades resistance coalition in the city of Jenin in northern West Bank, the spokesman noted.
Abu Obeida further identified Zubaidi as one of the Palestinian prisoners, who staged a historic escape from the Israeli regime’s Gilboa Prison in 2021 using only spoons to dig up a whole in the prison floor.
The prisoner was also defined as a symbol of the Second Palestinian Intifada (Uprising) against the regime.
According to spokesman, Israeli forces raided his home at the Jenin Refugee Camp amid the prospect of his release, assaulting and tying up his wife and children.
In the first phase of implementation of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas has agreed to release 33 captives in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
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