Report: Former PA minister traveling to Qatar to meet with mediators on list of prisoners to be freed in potential hostage deal

A Palestinian Authority source tells the Ynet news site that a former minister is traveling to Qatar to ready the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal.

Palestinian Prisoners Club director Qadura Fares “went to Qatar to meet with the negotiating team and prepare the list of Palestinian prisoners who will be released as part of a hostage deal,” the source says.

The Prisoners Club is a Palestinian organization that advocates on behalf of Palestinians in Israeli jails. While the organization used to be financially supported by the Palestinian Authority, Ramallah has reportedly ceased funding the body for at least five years.

Yesterday, Fares said the first stage of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas will entail the release of 25 Israeli hostages in exchange for 48 Palestinian security prisoners who were freed in the Shalit deal in 2011 and incarcerated again since, along with 200 prisoners serving life sentences, and another 1,000 detainees including women, children and wounded prisoners.

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