Hamas’s prisoners’ media office and the Palestinian Prisoners Club publish lists of the 602 Palestinian prisoners slated for release today, including 50 serving life sentences.
Of those being freed, 445 were captured in the Gaza Strip after October 7 and are set to be released back into the enclave.
Nael Barghouti, the longest-serving Palestinian inmate in an Israeli prison, jailed in 1978 for killing a bus driver, is one of 47 Palestinian prisoners re-arrested following their release in the 2011 Gilad Shalit exchange, and one of 41 of them to be released. He will be deported abroad upon his release.
Six of the prisoners re-arrested after the Shalit exchange have refused to be deported abroad, Israel’s Army Radio reports. They will remain in prison, and six other prisoners will be freed in their place.
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