The five-star Renaissance Cairo Mirage hotel in Egypt confirms to Israel’s Channel 12 that more than 150 Palestinian terrorists were staying at the hotel after they were released from Israeli prisons and deported under the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal, but says that they are no longer there.
Earlier today, the UK’s Daily Mail tabloid reported that more than 150 deported terrorists were staying at the hotel, owned by the multinational Marriott hotel chain.
Under the terms of the ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza, Israel freed some 2,000 security prisoners, including some 250 serving life sentences for deadly terror attacks. The worst of the offenders were deported.
Former prisoners seen at the hotel, according to the Mail, included Mahmoud Issa, who had been imprisoned since 1993 for his part in the abduction and murder of Border Police officer Nissim Toledano the previous year; Samir Abu Nima, who was sentenced to life in jail for a 1983 Jerusalem bus bombing that killed six people including, an 11-year-old child; and Muhammad Zawahra, who took part in a deadly 2024 shooting near near a Jerusalem-area checkpoint.
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