Group representing terror victims to petition against release of Palestinian prisoners

An organization that represents victims of Palestinian terror attacks vows to petition the Supreme Court to stop the release of Palestinian prisoners as part of a ceasefire agreement starting Sunday, calling it a “victory for the murderers.”

“They are releasing terrorists who have blood on their hands for the second time, and this means [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, under pressure from [President-elect Donald] Trump, is endangering people who will be murdered in the future,” says Meir Indor, the head of the Almagor Terror Victim Association.

Indor adds that Israel has not learned its lesson from the past three prisoner exchanges, which all led to released prisoners carrying out new attacks.

Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war, was released together with more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoner in a 2011 deal in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was taken from his tank in Gaza and held captive for five years.

Indor says that it’s an additional insult that the negotiations did not leave the typical 48-hour window for victims of attacks to appeal the release of specific prisoners who attacked them.