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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Freed arch-terrorist, convicted of killing 45, is guest at slain hostage handover in Gaza
2025-02-21
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Abu Warda, responsible for series of suicide bombings, vows to continue ‘resistance’ at Khan Younis ceremony; had reportedly been slated to be deported to Egypt

A Paleostinian terrorist responsible for killing dozens of Israelis who was released from prison just days ago was seen in media footage at the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
handover of bodies of four slain hostages Thursday.

Mohammed Abu Warda, a former commander in Hamas’s armed wing, was serving 48 life sentences in Israel for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks that killed 45 people, including a 1996 bombing on a Jerusalem bus that left 24 dead.

He was released by Israel on February 8 along with other terror convicts as part of the ongoing hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group.

According to Hebrew media, Abu Warda was the prisoner with the highest number life sentences to be released so far during the truce. He served 23 years.

Though he was reportedly slated to be deported to Egypt, Abu Warda was seen Thursday morning at a Khan Younis stage where the terror group held a ceremony marking the transfer of what is said were the bodies of four Israeli hostages: Shiri Bibas, her two young children Ariel and Kfir, and octogenarian peace activist Oded Lifshitz, all of whom were kidnapped alive by holy warriors on October 7, 2023.

He was seated in the front row alongside other Hamas dignitaries, apparently as a guest of honor. Abu Warda’s presence at the ceremony was first reported in Israel by the Kan public broadcaster.

Speaking to a news hound, Abu Warda vowed that Hamas’s "resistance" would continue "until we reach liberation of [Jerusalem] and all our lands."

Under the terms of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement, Israel is freeing some 2,000 Paleostinians in prison for security offenses, including hundreds serving life sentences, in exchange for the release of 25 living hostages and eight bodies.

Abu Warda was freed in the third round of the deal, in exchange for the release of hostages Gadi Mozes, Agam Berger, and Arbel Yehoud.

According to the Kan broadcaster, Egypt refused to grant entry to Abu Warda and 19 other released security prisoners and has demanded that other prisoners it has already taken in be deported elsewhere before it will accept new prisoners.

Hamas claims initial agreements have been received from Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
to accept released Paleostinian prisoners, but this has not yet been implemented, Kan reported.

Abu Warda was arrested by the Paleostinian Authority in 2002 in connection to bombings he organized for Hamas and had been in Israeli prisons until his release earlier this month.

When he was charged in 2004, the Israeli judges called the case "one of the most serious indictments ever filed in the State of Israel."

Throughout the ceasefire, Hamas has staged public ceremonies when releasing hostages in an attempt to bolster its claims of remaining in power in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, after being pounded by Israel’s military for some 15 months in response to the October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.

During the Khan Younis ceremony Thursday, Hamas displayed four black coffins on stage surrounded by banners, including a large one depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire.

Thousands of people, including large numbers of masked and armed members of terror groups, looked on as the coffins were loaded onto Red Thingy vehicles before being driven to Israeli forces.

Inside the coffins were thought to be the bodies of Shiri Bibas, her small children Ariel, 4 at the time, and Kfir, just 9 months old, and Lifshitz, all kidnapped from their Nir Oz homes.

After receiving the coffins inside Gaza, the IDF held a small military ceremony, led by IDF Chief Rabbi Brig. Gen. Eyal Karim, who read psalms as the coffins were draped in Israeli flags.

Israelis, many somberly waving flags, lined roads as a convoy of vehicles brought the bodies to a forensic institute in Tel Aviv for identification.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Troops neutralize bomb-laden car, Palestinian shot dead near IDF base, in West Bank
2025-02-14
[IsraelTimes] Military says troops have killed over 60 Palestinian terror operatives, detained over 210, amid ongoing counter-terrorism operation expected to last several more weeks

Israeli troops rubbed out a Paleostinian suspect at the entrance to a military base near Nablus on Thursday, while commando forces destroyed an car bomb in Jenin, amid an ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank.

The Paleostinian suspect was shot by soldiers at the entrance to the Samaria Regional Brigade’s base near Nablus, the Israel Defense Forces said. He arrived at the entrance to the base in a vehicle and crashed into its gate.

"The suspect was neutralized after moving suspiciously toward the forces," the IDF said.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said it had been notified of the man’s death, indicating his body was being held by Israeli authorities. He was named by the PA as 28-year-old Issa Riyad Issa Jabali.

No soldiers were maimed in the incident.

Also Thursday, troops of the Egoz commando unit destroyed an car bomb in the West Bank city of Jenin, the military said. Footage published by the IDF showed a drone dropping a bomb on the parked car.

In addition, the IDF said that on Wednesday, troops of the Maglan commando unit killed three button men during an exchange of fire in the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem. One soldier was moderately maimed in the incident.

The festivities came amid an offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, that was launched on January 21 and that the military expects to last several more weeks.

Israeli forces have been operating in the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas areas.

Troops have killed more than 60 Paleostinian terror operatives and detained more than 210 amid the major ongoing counter-terrorism operation, the military said on Thursday.

The IDF has acknowledged mistakenly killing several civilians during the operation, including a toddler and a pregnant woman.

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International-UN-NGOs
PA’s Abbas calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on IDF West Bank op
2025-02-03
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
has called for an emergency UN Security Council session on the "ongoing Israeli aggression against the Paleostinian people" in the northern West Bank, where the IDF is conducting a major counterterrorism operation.

According to the PA-affiliated Wafa news agency, Abbas’s request to the UNSC demands that it put an end to Israel’s "systemic destruction of the infrastructure" in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, Tamoun, and Tubas, and to the "policy of killing" that he asserts Israel has implemented throughout the counterterrorism operation.

Wafa reports that Abbas has also called on US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
and his administration to intervene, and force the IDF to halt its operations in the West Bank.

Separately, the PA foreign ministry condemns the IDF’s destruction of buildings in Jenin earlier today.

The IDF said that the 23 buildings it demolished had been used by terror operatives.

The ministry "condemns, in the strongest terms, the bombings committed by the Israeli occupation forces... including their action today, Sunday, to blow up large neighborhoods of the Jenin camp," it says in a statement, describing it as a "brutal scene."
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF carries out two drone strikes in Jenin area; Palestinians say 4 dead, including teen
2025-02-02
[IsraelTimes] Military says strikes targeted armed terror operatives amid ongoing operation in northern West Bank

The Israeli military on Saturday said it carried out two dronezaps on terror operatives in the northern West Bank, with Paleostinians reporting four people killed and several others maimed.

One dronezap targeted a group of armed Paleostinian terror operatives in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank, the army said. Another strike, in the city of Qabatiya, near Jenin, targeted a car with several terror operatives in it.

The military said that further details would be provided later.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry reported two dead in the dronezap in Jenin and another two dead in the strike in Qabatiya. Paleostinian officials said the strike in Jenin killed a 14-year-old.

Two other people were also taken to a hospital after being maimed in the Jenin attack, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.

The strikes came amid a major counter-terrorism operation in the northern West Bank.

Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that the teenager, Ahmad Sadi, and the two others "were hit by an occupation drone when they were in the street."

The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but on Monday expanded to Tulkarem.

Visiting Jenin Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed the IDF would remain in the camp even after the military operation there, "to ensure terror does not return."

The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel out of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip ignited the war there.

Since then troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 858 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or bully boyz carrying out attacks.

There has also been a significant uptick in settler violence against Paleostinians since the start of the war.

During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

IDF expands West Bank counterterrorism operation to town of Tamun
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has expanded its ongoing counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank, now in its 12th day, and troops are now operating in the town of Tamun.

Troops of the Bislamach Brigade — the IDF’s School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders in peacetime — entered the town overnight, and have so far located several weapons, the military says.

Last week, a drone strike in Tamun killed 10 Palestinian terror operatives.

The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but also expanded to Tulkarem last week and now to Tamun.

IDF says it targeted 3 West Bank terror cells in strikes last night, including freed prisoner
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it targeted Palestinian terrorists in three separate aerial strikes within several hours in the northern West Bank last night, including a cell that was on its way to carry out an imminent attack, confirming that it took out a prisoner set free as part of a 2023 deal with Hamas.

The military says the strike on the cell on its way to carry out a terror attack occurred in Qabatiya, with secondary explosions observed as a result of bombs that were in the car going off.

That strike, the IDF says, killed terror operatives Salah Zakarneh and Abd al-Hadi Kamil, the latter of whom was released as part of a hostage deal in November 2023.

The IDF publishes footage of the Qabatiya strike.
Video can be seen at the link.
The two other strikes occurred in Jenin, the army says, adding that they targeted two armed terror cells.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry reported two killed in the Qabatiya strike, two killed in one of the Jenin strikes, and 16-year-old Ahmad al-Sadi killed in the other Jenin strike along with others critically wounded.

IDF drone strike in West Bank said to kill Palestinian prisoner freed in 2023 deal
[IsraelTimes] One of two Palestinian gunmen killed in an IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Qabatiya this evening is identified by Palestinian media as Abd Issam Alawneh.

Alawneh had been previously detained by Israel, and was released in the November 2023 hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.

He is the fourth Palestinian released in the November 2023 deal to have been killed by Israel.

A separate drone strike in Jenin this evening killed three more Palestinians, according to media reports.



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Jenin: 2025-01-30 At least 10 said killed by IDF strike targeting terror cell in northern West Bank

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International-UN-NGOs
Facing flak, Red Cross defends its role in Israel-Hamas war
2025-02-02
[IsraelTimes] Derided by Israelis as a ‘glorified taxi service’ for failure to help hostages in captivity, the ICRC insists it has little power beyond what belligerent parties afford it

The Red Cross'>Red Thingy, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, has defended itself in a rare statement outlining the limits of its role.

Insisting on its neutrality, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said the escalation of violence in Israel and the Paleostinian territories has triggered "a proliferation of dehumanizing language and of false and misleading information about the ICRC and our work in the current conflict."

The organization, dedicated to aiding victims of war, including by visiting prisoners and detainees, has faced heavy criticism in Israel since October 7, 2023, for its failure to secure any meaningful aid for the 251 hostages taken by hard boyz that day — whether by monitoring their conditions or providing them with basic humanitarian assistance, including medicine.

For its limited role in facilitating the transfer of freed hostages from Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
to Israeli forces — both during the November 2023 ceasefire and the current one — many Israelis have come to derisively refer to the ICRC as little more than a glorified taxi service.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
in response to Hamas’s refusal to allow ICRC visits to its hostages, Israel has blocked the agency’s visits to Paleostinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, leading to criticism on that front as well.

The ICRC faced fresh Israeli anger as Thursday’s hostage transfer in Khan Younis descended into chaos, with masked terror operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
struggling to hold back a surging crowd and Red Thingy workers seeming powerless to protect hostages Gadi Mozes and Arbel Yehoud.

ICRC officials "did nothing to interfere with this intimidating display of indignity and public humiliation," Gerald Steinberg, president of the Israeli organization NGO Monitor, wrote in the Australian-based online magazine Quillette.

The ICRC said: "Ensuring the safety and security of the handover operations is the responsibility of the parties to the agreement."

Furthermore, it asserted, "interfering with armed security personnel could compromise the safety of ICRC staff, and more importantly that of the hostages."

The Geneva-based organization said it had not given permission for "people carrying Hamas flags to get on top of our buses in Ramallah" during the release of Paleostinian detainees, but "nor did we have the capacity to prevent people from doing so."

In late 2023, Israel’s then-foreign minister Eli Cohen said the Red Thingy had "no right to exist" if it did not visit the hostages in Gaza.

The organization insists it relies on the belligerents’ goodwill.

"From day one, we have called for the immediate release of all the hostages, and for access to them," it said in a statement.

In World War II, the ICRC visited prisoners of war, but its mandate did not explicitly extend to civilians unless governments allowed it.

The ICRC acknowledges that during World War II, it "failed to speak out and more importantly act on behalf of the millions of people who suffered and perished in the death camps, especially the Jewish people targeted, persecuted and murdered under the Nazi regime."

In its statement, the ICRC reaffirmed that this was the "greatest failure" in the organization’s history, and said it unequivocally rejects antisemitism in all its forms.

At the same time, the ICRC has been accused by pro-Paleostinian activists, particularly on social media, of not putting pressure on Israel to secure visits to Paleostinian detainees since October 7, 2023, and also of not doing enough to help the maimed in the Gaza Strip.

The humanitarian organization says it has been actively engaging with the Israeli authorities "to allow for the resumption of ICRC visits and family contacts for these detainees."

As for the maimed in Gaza, the ICRC said it had received requests to evacuate hospitals in the north, but could not regularly safely access the area due to the "extremely difficult security situation — together with roads blocked and unreliable communications."

Following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect on January 19, the ICRC, which already had 130 staff in Gaza, is deploying more personnel, including doctors.

In 1968, Leopold Boissier, a former ICRC president, noted that the criticism most frequently leveled at the organization "is the silence with which it surrounds some of its activities."

Nearly 60 years later, the ICRC is facing similar accusations, not only regarding the Israel-Hamas war but also since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Founded in Geneva in 1863, the organization, which has more than 18,000 staff in over 90 countries, denies being "complicit" and says it establishes trust through "confidential dialogue with all parties to the conflict."

"Our neutrality and impartiality are critical to our ability to operate in any context."
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Atallah among notorious terrorists set for release Thursday, *UPDATE*
2025-01-30
[IsraelTimes] Israel has yet to name the 110 prisoners who will be freed in return for 3 female hostages, though public broadcaster says 33 of them are serving life terms for deadly attacks

Israel is expected to free a number of high-profile turbans in exchange for the three Israeli hostages slated for release on Thursday — Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, and Gadi Mozes.

Among the 110 prisoners to be released are prominent terror convicts Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Atallah and Ahmed Barghouti, according to multiple media reports.

Zubeidi, who will return home to the West Bank, organized dozens of attacks during the Second Intifada while heading the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades in Jenin. He was one of six prisoners who briefly beat feet from Gilboa prison in 2021, before being recaptured.

Atallah, who is serving a life sentence for murdering a Paleostinian woman suspected of collaborating with Israel, will be released to Nablus. He was indicted last September for repeatedly sexually assaulting female guards at Gilboa Prison.

Barghouti, a senior military official in Fatah, received 13 life sentences for carrying out a series of terror attacks during the Second Intifada that killed 12 Israelis. He will be deported abroad via Egypt.

Authorities have yet to give official information on the prisoners to be set freed on Thursday and Saturday, though the Kan public broadcaster said 33 of them are serving life terms for deadly attacks, 47 are serving long prison terms, and the remaining 30 are women and minors.

The Haaretz daily reported that among the other prisoners set to be released are Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
operative Mohammed Abu Warda, who is serving 48 life sentences for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks, including a 1996 bombing on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 45 people; and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
member Sami Jaradat, who was responsible for a 2003 bombing at a restaurant in Haifa that killed 21 people.

Both Abu Warda and Jaradat are expected to be sent to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip or Egypt.

The newspaper said that Ammar Mardi, a Jordanian member of Fatah involved in the 2001 killing of Yuri Gushchin near Ramallah, will be freed after refusing to board a bus to Gaza during the release of prisoners last weekend, though it remains unclear where he will go.

According to an Israel Prisons Service spokesperson, the prisoners will be transported to two main reception points, Ofer and Ktzi’ot prisons, before being released home or deported.

After the three Israeli hostages are confirmed to have returned, prisoners headed for the West Bank will be escorted by the Red Thingy to a release point, and those being deported or released into Gaza will be escorted by the special Prison Service units to the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

No prisoners will be exchanged for the five Thai hostages who are also due to be freed, since they are being released under a separate agreement between Hamas and Thailand.

Thursday’s exchange is part of the first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas that took effect on January 19, under which 50 prisoners are released for every soldier and 30 for each civilian. Israel freed 90 prisoners in return for three civilian hostages early last week, followed by 200 additional inmates — including 121 serving life sentences for terrorism — in exchange for four female soldiers on Saturday.

During the 42-day period, 33 Israeli captives held in Gaza are expected to be released in return for 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners, including 737 serving life terms. The other 1,167 are Paleostinians detained during the IDF’s ground offensive who did not participate in the Hamas-led October 7 massacre that started the Gaza war.

Talks have yet to begin on the deal’s second stage, in which Hamas is expected to release young, relatively healthy male hostages, including soldiers, for whom the terrorist organization is likely to demand Israel pay a heavier price.
*UPDATE*


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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Parades in West Bank, chants in Gaza, Hamas flags in East Jerusalem as terrorists freed
2025-01-26
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian crowds hail terror group as Israel frees 200 inmates, including 121 serving life for attacks that killed dozens; one prisoner refuses to leave jail for Gaza, is swapped


..,1 DFLP life sentence

Israel on Saturday released 200 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences for terror attacks that have killed dozens, in return for four female soldiers held by Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, according to two lists published by the terror group.

Hamas’s list of life-term prisoners showed that 70 of them would be exiled. Egyptian media reported that Israel had delivered them to Egypt via Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Rafah Border Crossing after Hamas released Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Liri Albag.

None of the other Paleostinian prisoners were set to be exiled, according to Hamas’s list of non-life-term prisoners.

Crowds of Paleostinians erupted in joy and chanted praise of Hamas as they welcomed dozens of prisoners who arrived in Ramallah aboard buses.

Stepping off the buses in gray tracksuits, many prisoners were raised onto the shoulders of people waiting, while others walked through the crowd.

"I had no doubt that I would be liberated one day. I was confident of that," said Mohammad al-Arda, sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years over his membership in the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group. He was recaptured in 2021 after digging his way out of jail through an improvised tunnel with three other inmates.

"We were in solitary confinement, under pressure and pain. I swear to God that when I saw the happiness of my people I became happy too, a happiness that words can’t describe," he said, after returning to Ramallah.

In the first, 42-day phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Israel is expected to release up to 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners, including 737 serving life terms, in return for 33 Israelis held captive in Gaza.

Naser Dawoud, a Hamas terrorist who spent 21 years in prison serving two life sentences for taking part in attacks on Israel, said he couldn’t believe his name was among those to be freed. "I am a human being and was sentenced for life, I didn’t expect this to happen, there were some efforts before, but this time God blessed us," he told Rooters.

Paleostinian national flags and flags of the Fatah faction that dominates the Paleostinian Authority could be seen in photos and videos from the West Bank. PA forces were reported to confiscate Hamas flags in some cases.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
in the village of Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli jurisdiction, Hamas flags were seen during a celebratory procession.

Before the implementation of the ceasefire-hostage deal, Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the IDF to prevent celebrations and parades by Paleostinians during the releases of security prisoners.

Channel 12 news reported that prisoners freed to Gaza were greeted with chants of "We are the people of Muhammad Deif," referencing Hamas’s late military chief, who was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the Strip in July.

Footage shared on social media showed prisoners deported to Egypt phoning relatives after their release. The former prisoners include some responsible for orchestrating deadly suicide kabooms over the past several decades.

Saturday’s release is the second under the ceasefire, after Sunday saw Hamas free three civilian women in return for 90 Paleostinian security prisoners — mostly women and minors.

The lists Hamas published Saturday showed that three members of the so-called Silwan Squad were slated for release, all of whom were said to be headed for exile: Wael Qassam, Wissam Abbasi and Muhammad Odeh.

The Silwan Squad, named for its members’ East Jerusalem neighborhood, killed 35 people and maimed hundreds in five bombings across Israel between March and June 2002, at the height of the Second Intifada.

Recently released Paleostinian prisoners that were facing life sentences, enter Ramallah as flags from Hamas, Fatah, DFLP, and PFLP wave around them.

The squad’s fourth member, Alaa Abbasi, was not among the 737 life-term prisoners Israel said it would release in the hostage deal’s first phase. At 60 life sentences, he is serving the longest prison term of the four.

Another terror convict listed as going into exile was Samer al-Atrash, a member of a Hamas cell that killed seven people on a Jerusalem bus in May 2003. al-Atrash is one of a handful of prisoners up for release who hold Israeli citizenship.

According to the list, Israel will also exile Mohammed al-Tous. Arrested for murder in 1985, al-Tous, 69, has spent the longest continuous period in Israeli detention of any Paleostinian prisoner. He is a member of the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling, secularist Fatah movement.

Another Fatah prisoner said to be freed was Yasser Abu-Bakr, a native of the West Bank’s Jenin, who will not be exiled. Abu-Bakr was sentenced in 2004 to a cumulative 115 years in jail for arming a terror cell that shot up a Netanya hotel lobby in March 2002, wounding some 50 people and killing a nine-year-old girl. The cell’s members also killed two coppers and a civilian bystander in subsequent shootouts.

Among the prominent bully boyz slated for release later in the deal are Zakaria Zubeidi, the former Jenin commander of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Mahmud Abu Varda, who is serving 48 life sentences for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks, including a 1996 bombing on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 45 people.

Most of the prisoners on the lists published Saturday hail from Hamas itself. Others belong to Fatah, Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, and one of two Marxist factions: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...

and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.

One life-term prisoner was listed as having no affiliation — a 15-year-old arrested on November 2, 2023, whose crime was not detailed. Another 15-year-old, arrested the same day, appeared on the list of non-life-term prisoners, also without affiliation. They were the only two minors on the Hamas list.

Except for the two minors, all prisoners were listed as having been arrested before October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led bully boyz stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Kan news reported that two of the inmates slated for release had refused to board a bus taking them from Ketziot Prison to Gaza. One of the inmates eventually agreed to board, while the other continued to refuse and was swapped with another prisoner.

It is believed that 87 hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas has so far released seven hostages during a ceasefire that began in January. The terror group released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.

Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 40 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.

In addition to those kidnapped in the October 7 attack, Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza earlier this month.
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Paleostinian prisoner 01/23/2025 As terrorists go free, Israel debates keeping enemies close or sending them far away
Paleostinian prisoner 01/22/2025 Hamas confirms 4 female hostages to be released on Saturday, without naming them

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Israel's full cabinet approves long-awaited cease-fire deal with Hamas
2025-01-18
[NYPOST] Israel's full Cabinet on Saturday approved the long-awaited cease-fire deal with Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
that will halt the fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and allow for the release of dozens of hostages held captive by the terrorist group for 15 months.

Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's 33-member cabinet signed off on the deal hours after the smaller security cabinet voted to move forward with the agreement that could open the door to permanent peace in the Paleostinian territory.

The cabinet debated for hours into early Saturday and well past the start of the Jewish Sabbath — an emphasis on the importance of the situation — before the high-stakes deal was accepted.

Macron says two French-Israelis among 33 hostages to be released by Hamas in Gaza deal
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron says two French-Israeli citizens, Ofer Calderon and Ohad Yahalomi, are on the list of 33 hostages slated to be released by Hamas in the first stage of a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Macron’s announcement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that the release of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel is expected to begin on Sunday as planned.

“Our fellow citizens Ofer Calderon and Ohad Yahalomi are on the list of 33 hostages to be freed in the first phase of the Gaza accord,” Macron says in a social media post.

“We remain mobilized without pause to ensure their return to their families,” he writes.

Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi to be freed in first phase of hostage-ceasefire deal
[IsraelTimes] Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, who was part of a prison break from a high-security detention facility in northern Israel in 2021 before he and the other escapees were again apprehended, is included on the Justice Ministry’s list of Palestinian security prisoners that Israel is slated to release in the first stage of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.

The list in Hebrew published online states that Zubeidi will not be sent abroad, allowing him to return home to the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where he was the commander of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

The IDF last year killed his son Mohammed alongside several other gunmen in a drone strike, describing the younger Zubeidi as “prominent terrorist from the Jenin area,” which has been a hotbed of terror activity over the past year.

Abbas: PA ready to assume ‘full responsibility’ in Gaza Strip when ceasefire begins
[IsraelTimes] President of Palestinian Authority, which isn’t a party to Israel-Hamas deal, said to issue 4-page document outlining the plans of his West Bank-based government for ruling Gaza.
Nobody cares, guys — nobody wants you, not even your own people in the West Bank.
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Five Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on car in West Bank
2024-09-06
Five Paleostinian young men were killed and two others were maimed, one of them seriously, in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
carried out by an Israeli occupation drone on a vehicle in the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank.
"Road trip!" *Boom!*
Red Islamic Thingy sources said that ambulance crews retrieved five killed youths from the bombed vehicle, while resuscitation operations are being carried out for a sixth injured person.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that five people were killed and two others were maimed, one of whom was critically, and were taken to Tubas Ottoman Turkish Governmental Hospital, as a result of the occupation bombing of a car near Tubas.

The slain Paleostinians were identified as Ahmed Fawaz Fayez Abu Dawas, 24, Muhammad Awad Salem Abu Juma, 30, Qusay Majdi Abdullah Abdul Razek, 26, Muhammad Nazmi Abu Zagha, 23, and Muhammad Zakaria Muhammad al-Zubaidi, 21, the son of prisoner Zakaria al-Zubaidi.

This bombing coincides with the continued storming operation carried out by the occupation forces in Far'a camp south of Tubas.

Earlier this morning, Red Islamic Thingy sources said that the occupation forces shot a young man with more than one bullet inside Far'a camp south of Tubas, abused him and dragged him with a bulldozer, and prevented the ambulance crews present nearby from reaching him or transporting him and providing him with the necessary first aid, and that there is no confirmed information about the nature of his health condition.
Update from the Times of Israel at 12:05 p.m. ET:
The IDF confirms killing the son of notorious terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi and other button men in a dronezap early this morning in the West Bank city of Tubas, amid renewed operations there.

The IDF has been carrying out a major operation in the northern West Bank since August 28. The operation — internally dubbed "Summer Camps" by the army — began with simultaneous raids on Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas.

The military says it began a new raid overnight in Tubas and the nearby Far’a camp, as well as a separate operation in Jericho.

In Tubas, a drone targeted a cell of button men, the IDF says.

Among the dead was Mohammed Zubeidi, 21, the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, who in September 2021 beat feet from Gilboa Prison along with five other high-security prisoners, leading Israeli security forces on a two-week manhunt before being caught.

The IDF says that the younger Zubeidi was a "prominent terrorist from the Jenin area" who participated in shooting attacks against Israeli towns close to the West Bank security barrier, as well as other attacks on troops.

The other four button men — identified by the Paleostinian Authority health ministry as Ahmed Abu Dawas, 24, Mohammed Abu Juma, 30, Qusay Abd al-Razeq, 26, and Mohammed Abu Zagha, 23 — were also involved in shooting attacks, the IDF adds.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
in the Far’a camp, the IDF says a drone targeted a group of armed Paleostinians that were hurling bombs at troops, and separately, members of the Israel Prison Service’s elite Metzada Unit killed a gunman who was holding a bomb.
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Tubas: 2024-09-01 Paleo death toll from Israeli raid in West Bank hits 20 26 on third day of operation
Tubas: 2024-08-31 Israel air strike kills three Palestinians on third day of West Bank raid
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Jenin: 2024-09-03 In longest West Bank raid in 20 years, IDF aims to set stage for future, smaller ops
Jenin: 2024-09-02 PIJ and Hamas forces ambush Israeli forces in Jenin
Jenin: 2024-09-02 Three Israeli police officers killed in West Bank, Fatah gunman later killed in Hebron
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Israeli forces arrest Fatah-linked terror operative in Jenin refugee camp
2023-09-10
[IsraelTimes] IDF says Tanzim member Muhammad Naghnaghiya aided in carrying out series of West Bank shootings in recent months

Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning, for the second time in days, arresting a suspected terror operative partially associated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party.

Muhammad Naghnaghiya, a veteran member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group, was detained for allegedly aiding in executing a series of shooting attacks in the West Bank in recent months, according to the military.

Members of the Border Police’s undercover West Bank unit converged on a building in the Jenin refugee camp and nabbed Naghnaghiya, after receiving intelligence on his whereabouts from the Shin Bet security agency.

The Israel Defense Forces said that during the raid, Paleostinian button men shot at the forces, who returned fire.

Naghnaghiya was handed over to the Shin Bet for further questioning.

Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the PA’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in violence at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000.

Paleostinian media on Wednesday published a photo from the early 2000s showing Naghnaghiya with notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi in the Jenin refugee camp.

Zubeidi, a senior commander in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was released from Israeli prison in a 2007 amnesty deal, but was rearrested a decade later. Exactly two years ago, on September 6, 2021, while still awaiting trial, Zubeidi fled Gilboa Prison — along with five other high-risk Paleostinian security prisoners — in an escape that transfixed Israelis and Paleostinians for weeks. They were all later rearrested.

The raid on Wednesday morning came less than two days after Israeli forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest three members of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group.

Violence has surged across the West Bank over the past year and a half, with a rise in Paleostinian shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and troops, near-nightly arrest raids by the military, and an uptick in Dire Revenge attacks by krazed killer Jewish settlers against Paleostinians.

The IDF said Wednesday morning that troops detained nine wanted Paleostinians during overnight raids elsewhere in the West Bank, with festivities in some areas.

Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank since the beginning of the year have left 27 civilians and three soldiers dead, and several others seriously maimed.

According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 180 West Bank and East Jerusalem Paleostinians have been killed during the same period — the vast majority of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers.
Related:
Jenin refugee camp: 2023-09-06 Good Morning
Jenin refugee camp: 2023-09-05 Israeli citizens caught smuggling explosives from Jordan for Islamic Jihad
Jenin refugee camp: 2023-09-06 Three Hamas members nabbed by IDF in first Jenin refugee camp raid in 2 months
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Tanzim: 2023-02-13 IDF confirms nabbing terror operative during daylight raid in Jenin
Tanzim: 2022-07-24 9 Palestinians said hurt in gunfire exchange with Israeli troops in Nablus UPDATE: 2 dead Paleos, 19 injured
Tanzim: 2022-07-22 After 16 years, Israel arrests Fatah-linked terrorist for killing of IDF soldier
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IDF confirms nabbing terror operative during daylight raid in Jenin
2023-02-13
[IsraelTimes] The military confirms that Israeli troops arrested Jabril Zubeidi during an operation in Jenin today.

In a joint statement with the Border Police and Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces says Zubeidi turned himself over to undercover officers and soldiers who carried out the daytime raid. The statement describes Zubeidi as a local operative with the Fatah-linked Tanzim terror group and says he’s been involved in attacks on Israel forces.

It alleges he also helped plan attacks and cites his suspected involvement in the snatching of an Israeli Druze teenager’s body after he was killed in a car crash.
That’d be 17-year-old Tiran Fero last November, a very strange decision on their part.
The remains were ultimately returned.

The IDF says Israeli soldiers returned fire after being shot at in Jenin, and also had explosives and rocks hurled toward them. The military adds that troops found ammunition in a car while carrying out searches.

It also says it’s aware of Paleostinian reports of injuries, as the PA’s health ministry says three people were seriously hurt by Israeli fire. No Israeli forces were maimed.

Earlier:
Daytime clashes between Israeli troops, Palestinian gunmen reported in Jenin

[IsraelTimes] Daytime shootouts are reported in Jenin, with Israeli forces clashing with Paleostinians as they enter the northern West Bank city.

According to reports, the Israeli troops were seeking to arrest Jibril Zubeidi, the brother of imprisoned terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi.

Footage on social media shows a column of armored Israeli vehicles in Jenin.

There is no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.

PA says 14-year-old died of wounds sustained in Jenin clashes
Unfortunately, he was led into danger by his elders, and now he is dead. Still, the Palestinian Authorities will pay his family a hefty sum to reward them for producing such killable offspring for the cause.
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry says a teenager has died as a result of wounds sustained during festivities with Israeli troops in Jenin earlier.

The ministry identifies the teen as 14-year-old Qusai Radwan Waked.

Two other Paleostinians were seriously hurt during the festivities.

It was not clear to what extent the teen was participating in the festivities, but the IDF said troops had returned fire at button men who were shooting at them as they were arresting a wanted terror operative.
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