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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

prisoner release

This handout photo shows Israelis lining a highway in southern Israel as police transport the remains of slain hostages to the national forensic center in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2025. (Israel Police)
February 26, 2025, 10:03 pm
After logjam, Hamas releases 4 hostage bodies to Israel in quiet, late-night transfer
Israel starts releasing over 600 prisoners who were slated to be freed Saturday, but source says they won’t all be released until the bodies are ID’d, in what may be last handover of first stage
By ToI Staff
Left: Nael Obeid (social media); Right: A crowd gathers around a bus carrying released Palestinian prisoners as it arrives in the West Bank city of Beitunia, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
February 23, 2025, 7:07 pm
Terrorist behind deadly bombing falls to his death a week after release under Gaza deal
Hamas’s Nael Obeid was jailed for 2003 Cafe Hillel bombing in Jerusalem; 7 fatalities included Dr. David Applebaum, hospital emergency room head, and his daughter Nava, on the eve of her wedding
By Charlie Summers
Gazans, including young children, and Hamas gunmen gather shortly before the release of three Israeli hostages in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 22, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
February 23, 2025, 4:28 pm
The eve of a return to war
With all living hostages in the first phase of the deal now home, and widespread national revulsion at Hamas, conditions are ripe from Netanyahu’s perspective for resuming intensive conflict in Gaza
By Amir Ben-David
A Palestinian walks past destroyed residential buildings damaged by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
February 7, 2025, 7:32 pm
Israel to show prisoners clip of Gaza destruction prior to release under truce deal
Reports say video meant to demonstrate costs of war to terror convicts who have had little access to media, serve as a deterrent
By ToI Staff
Freed Palestinian security prisoner Ateya Abu Moussa, held by Israel for 20 years, is greeted by his relatives and friends upon arrival at his family's house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 14, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 17, 2025, 12:16 pm
For many Israelis, prospect of hostage release is tempered by concerns about freeing terrorists
Supporters of the Gaza accord often acknowledge it is a ‘bad deal,’ yet one they vehemently believe Israel must accept in order to be true to its values
By Deborah Danan
Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus (C) attends a court session in Tehran on December 10, 2023. (Amir Abbas Ghasemi / Mizan News Agency / AFP)
June 16, 2024, 8:52 pm
Swede released from Iranian prison says he is in ‘seventh heaven’
Johan Floderus, who was on death row, freed alongside Saeed Azizi in swap for Hamid Noury, former Iranian prisons official serving life sentence
By AFP
Illustrative: The Ktziot Detention Camp on September 13, 2022. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
December 21, 2023, 1:14 pm
Police question 19 guards in connection with fatal beating of Palestinian prisoner
Investigators probe ‘violent incident’ at Ketziot Prison last month; Palestinian ex-prisoners say they are witnesses; Ben Gvir says guards have ‘presumption of innocence’
By ToI Staff
Left: US President Joe Biden holds a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on September 10, 2023 (SAUL LOEB / AFP); Right: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking before students and clerics during a rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
September 10, 2023, 5:55 pm
US, Iran may begin moving forward with prisoner swap next week — report
$6 billion in frozen Iranian funds said expected to reach Qatar within days, triggering mutual release of inmates; Iran will be able to access money only for humanitarian purchases
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)
June 2, 2023, 5:52 pm
Iran frees Dane, two Austrians in deal brokered by Oman, Belgium
Officials offer few details as Tehran releases Iranian-Austrian businessmen held on spying, national security charges, as well as Danish man stopped at 2022 women’s rights protest
By AP
Mehdi Hashemi, the son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, addresses the media before entering the Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, August 11, 2015. (YouTube/Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 18, 2023, 2:45 pm
Former Iranian president Rafsanjani’s son freed after seven years in jail
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, 53, was convicted in 2015 of fraud, embezzlement and undermining national security, charges that he has previously denounced as ‘politically motivated’
By AFP
Former Jerusalem District Commander, Niso Shaham seen his release from prison, outside Hermon prison on August 25, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)
August 25, 2022, 11:04 pm
Former top cop jailed for sex crimes released early despite state’s objections
Prosecutors said Niso Shaham should remain behind bars as he never expressed remorse for having sex with officers under his command
By ToI Staff
Left: Defense Minister Benny Gantz. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File); Right: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File)
January 30, 2022, 11:20 am
Abbas asked Gantz to release 25 Palestinian prisoners in December meeting — report
Palestinian Authority leader reportedly said move would bolster his Fatah party by demonstrating that diplomacy is more effective than Hamas kidnappings
By ToI Staff
Bernie Madoff exits federal court in Manhattan on March 10, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)
June 4, 2020, 11:12 pm
Bernie Madoff’s bid for early prison release rejected
Judge who sentenced the Ponzi king to 150 years behind bars says ‘he has never fully accepted responsibility for his actions’; lawyer hoping Trump will commute his sentence
By Larry Neumeister
Naftali Rothenberg
January 5, 2018, 12:51 pm
Naftali Rothenberg
Death penalty contradicts Judaism
If we start with terrorists, we risk cheapening human life, and degenerating to a new moral low
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ronen Zvulun)
October 22, 2017, 2:22 pm
New negotiator for Israelis held in Gaza is right man for job, Netanyahu says
After announcing appointment of Yaron Blum, PM says Israel has a ‘moral and human duty’ to return missing citizens
By ToI Staff
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