As part of the agreed hostage-prisoner exchange deal, Israel released 200 terrorist prisoners on Saturday, according to Arab media reports.
This included more than half who were serving life sentences for terror attacks that killed dozens.
According to the reports, 114 prisoners were released from Ofer Prison and were transferred to Ramallah, 16 were taken to Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing, and 70 were deported to Egypt.
Egyptian media reported that the 70 prisoners will stay in Cairo for about a week and then will be transferred to other locations.
Among those released was 67-year-old Mohammed Al-Tous, the longest-serving Palestinian terrorist prisoner. Al-Tous has spent 39 years in Israeli prisons for the 1985 terror attack he committed.
Raed Al-Saadi, 57, was also released on Saturday during the prisoner release. Saadi was imprisoned in 1989 for carrying out attacks during the First Intifada, killing IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians. According to Arab media, he was supposed to be released in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap deal.
Some of the 70 deported terrorist prisoners were the Abu Hmeid brothers from Ramallah, Mohammed and Sharif, who were sentenced to life in prison. Nasser, their older brother, died in prison from cancer in late 2022, and his body is being held in Israel, according to Arab reports. He was a leader of the Fatah-affiliated armed terrorist group, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Palestinian media is releasing a video of released Fatah terrorist prisoner, Yasser Abu Bakr, speaking with the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on the phone.
Abbas congratulated Abu Bakr on his release, after he was imprisoned for 115 years in an Israeli prison for murdering a 9-month-old baby girl and two other civilians.
One of the prisoners released was one of the six escapees from the Gilboa prison in 2021, according to the New York Times.
Who else is on the list of released prisoners?
Here is a list of the prisoners who were released on Saturday:
- Ibrahim Khalil Ahmad Salah
- Mahmoud Isa / Mahmoud Ahmad As'ad
- Abdul Latif Muhammad Lutfi Ahmad Hamada
- Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Al-Shibani
- Muhammad Awda Is'hak Shuhada Awda
- Nasr Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Sharif Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Wa'il Na'im Ahmad Al-Jaghoub
- Wissam Sa'id Musa Al-Abbasi
- Saleh Subhi Dawood Dar Musa
- Muhammad Nasr al-Din Saleh Al-Malah
- Salim Muhammad Salim Hajj
- Thabit Azmi Suleiman Mardawi
- Muhammad Nabil Amir Muhammad Arqan
- Imad Rashid Abdul Rahman Kamil
- Rabi' Rafeeq Sharif Abu Al-Rub
- Jad Ibrahim Musa Mu'alla
- Ibrahim Muhammad Ahmad Halabiya
- Mahmoud Sadeqi Suleiman Radwan
- Sa'id Abdul Allah Sa'id Al-Banna
- Ramadan Eid Ramdhan Mishahra
- Khalil Muslim Muhammad Barq'ah
- Iyad Yaser Mahmoud Masalmah
- Tha'er Khalid Omar Oweidat
- Layla Ayoub Muhammad Abu Arjaliyah
- Yaser Muhammad Obaid Rabayah
- Jihad Yusuf Isma'il Al-Najjar
- Jasser Afif Muhammad Raddad
- Samir Abdul Fattah Rida Tubasi
- Basel Atef Muhammad Makhlouf
- Zaid Ibrahim Ahmad Beseisi
- Yaser Mahmoud Abu Bakr
- Mahmoud Ali Abdul Radaida
- Nafith Naif Salim Al-Hajj Hussein
- Naji Ibrahim Hassan Basharat
- As'ad Yusuf Hamid Za'arab
- Ra'if Ramez Helmi Al-Farra
- Muhammad Qasim Ahmad Aradah
- Muhammad Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Munif Muhammad Mahmoud Janadiyah
- Shadi Abdul Samih Suleiman Zaid
- Wa'il Mahmoud Muhammad Ali Qasim
- Fahmi Eid Ramadan Mishahra
- Khalid Sabir Muhammad Abu Amsha
- Salah al-Din Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Jalbush
- Mahmoud Hamad Mahmoud Sharaytah
- Iyad Ziad Abdul Fattah Al-Shurfa
- Ibrahim Isa Khalil Ibrahim
- Iyad Mahmoud Abdul Rahim Nassar
- Ali Hassan Abdul Allah Al-Rajbi
- Muhammad Shakir Alaan Mu'alla
- Ahmad Mustafa Yasin Fanni
- Fahd Abdul Allah Muhammad Sawalhi
- Mahmoud Atiyah Hassan Kleibi
- Nour Muhammad Shukri Jaber
- Iyad Ibrahim Hassan Jaradat
- Yahya Hashim Abdul Fattah Al-Haymuni
- Samer Abdul Samih Ahmad Al-Atresh
- Muhammad Na'im Salman Qawasmeh
- Muhammad Hussein Fayez Jaradat
- Ahmad Dheeb Abdul Rahman Daheedi
- Abdul Rahman Ghassan Mahmoud Washah
- Yusuf Abdul Latif Khidr Mahdawi
- Khalid Dheeb Hassan Abu Hamd
- Ammar Ahed Badi' Al-Shoubki
- Ibrahim Yusuf Ibrahim Atiyah
- Yusuf Ata Dheab Ahmad Al-Hajj Muhammad Hamdan
- Hussam Adnan Tawfiq Abed
- Sa'id Abdul Samih Suleiman Zaid (Al-Kilani)
- Fayez Abdul Majid Jaber Hamid
- Nasr Muhammad Yusuf Dawood
- Muhammad Hussein Awda Al-Barghouthi
- Muhammad Samir Ahmad Rajbi
- Muhammad Omar Abdul Allah Ahmad Zaid
- Muhammad Sami Abdul Hamid Al-Izza
- Ahmad Saleh Ahmad Musa
- Sa'id Nasr Mahmoud Ar'ar
- Mu'tasim Muhammad Salim Salim
- Ata Sa'id Ya'qub Abu Ramouz
- Hamza Salama Suleiman Abu Sawawin
- Ahmad Badi' Mustafa Hussein
- Nu'man Ali Ahmad Rayhan
- Muhammad Zuhair Salim Abu Draz
- Mahmoud Kamil Muhammad Ataunah
- Muhammad Abdul Khaleq Ahmad Abu Sa'dah
- Mu'taz Subhi Hassan Za'rour
- Iyad Hosni Al-Sayed Al-Jazzar
- Salah Riyadh Muhammad Magadaba
- Riyadh Abdul Qader Radi' Arafat
- Ibrahim Salim Musa Abu Sineenah
- Tamer Rajeh Isa Rajbi
- Muhammad Jamil Hassan Kafayah
- Shadi Samir Abdul Wahab Halawah
- Muhammad Mahmoud Tabab
- Mansour Wajih Faris Basharah
- Bakr Muhammad Suleiman Khrouish
- Nasr Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Muhammad Ismail Hassan Al-Hroub
- Ahmad Ibrahim Muhammad Abu Hamda
- Muhammad Yunus Ali Abu Hanke
- Mahmoud Samer Tawfiq Jabarin
- Az-Zayd Musa Dariya
- Abdul Allah Muhammad Ahmad Hadiya
- Tha'er Jamal Muhammad Ta'amrah
- Muhammad Murad Yaser Farhat
- Hussam Muhammad Jum'a Khalil Za'nin
- Omar Ismail Omar Wadi
- Baha' Dawood Ibrahim Awaisat
- Sa'id Osama Isa Harmas
- Mahdi Iyad Talib Akash
- Musa Fawaz Musa Qubaitat
- Muhammad Zuwid Hamdi Al-Agha
- Abdul Rahman Taha Abdul Rahman Ba'loushah
- Ayman Muhammad Ali Fawajrah
- Muhammad Ahmad Abdul Hamid Al-Tous
- Ra'ed Muhammad Sharif Al-Sa'adi\
- Ali Suleiman Sa'id Al-Sa'adi
- Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk
- Sadeqi Samer Sadeqi Jabr
- Rami Ibrahim Na'im Najjar
- Yunus Ali Abdul Munim Al-Jabari
- Muhammad Isa Mahmoud Al-Barbari
- Anas Qasim Falah Aqra'
- Zaid Ziyad Jamil Amir
- Abdul Aziz Hamad Mahmoud Mar'i
- Ahmad Muhammad Abdullah Hadrj
- Jawad Ziyad Abdul Ma'ti Shalkhti
- A'rafah Abdul Rahman Rashid Abu Sarour
- Tamer Yunus Ahmad Wrideh
- Muqaddad Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Hayeh
- Muhammad Musa Muhammad Badr
- Yaser Yaseen Musa Al-Turwah
- Suhaib Jabbar Ahmad Al-Faqih
- Ashraf Jamal Abdul Qader Ammar
- Muhammad Fahim Mahmoud Shalalda
- Hammam Jamal Badawi
- Masalmah Akram Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Akram Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Alaa Ra'ed Saleh Zaghir
- Bilal Ahmad Adeeb Abu Zaid
- Mahmoud Sa'id Muhammad Abu Asbah
- Madhat Fawzi Musa Abu Sinimah
- Tarek Abdul Fattah Khalid Yahya
- Tamer Shawkat Ahmad Khdeir
- Ra'ed Muhammad Ibrahim Badwan
- Tahir Khamees Ahmad Matar
- Ibrahim Jamal Mahmoud Hamad
- Abdul Aziz Yahya Hamid Masa'id
- Omar Muhammad Shawkat Mahajneh
- Ali Abdul Nasir Ahmad Mahameed
- Wa'il Hassan Fahed Abu Rida
- Ashraf Munir Hamid Al-Zaghayir
- Yunes Ali Muhammad Masa'ad
- Ahmad Khalid Dawood Hamid
- Omar Saleh Muhammad Faiq Al-Sharif
- Naseem Rashid Abdul Wadud Al-Zaatri
- Abdul Allah Adnan Yahya Al-Sharbati
- Murad Walid Khalid Al-Barghouthi
- Mu'ayed Shukri Abdul Hamid Hamad
- Hashim Nasr Ahmad Al-Sous
- Ammar Sadeqi Suleiman Abu Ghalous
- Sajad Ahmad Sadeqi Abu Ghalous
- Ja'far Fawzi Qasim Abu Hanani
- Bahjat Mahmoud Jamil Shaqirat
- Abdul Ma'iz Dheeb Ibrahim Al-Jaba'
- Louay Sha'ir Shakib
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.