Cairo (AP) — as Consulting about Gaza ceasefire As the pace of hostage release accelerates, Hamas is expected to seek the release of the most popular and most high-profile prisoners of war that Israel has detained, including politicians who may unite Palestine. Marwan Bargootie.
Israel views Barguti and others as the terrorist ringleaders who killed Israeli civilians, and has refused to be released in past exchanges. However, pressure is only increasing to end the war and bring back the remaining 48 hostages that were captured. Hamas Attack on October 7, 2023Of these, it is believed that around 20 are alive.
This is what many Palestinians see Thousands of prisoners Detained by Israel as a political prisoner or a resistant freedom fighter Decades of military occupation.
Israel fears history will repeat itself after its liberation Hamas executive Yahiya Singwar In exchange in 2011. After serving a long time in prison, he was one of the leading creators of the October 7 attack, leading extremist groups until he was killed by Israeli forces last year in Gaza.
Here are some of the prisoners that Hamas is thought to be at the top of the list he said he submitted to the mediators this week.
Marwan Bargootie
Polls have shown that 66-year-old Barguti is the most popular Palestinian politician in recent years, suggesting that he will be able to win easily in a presidential election that has not been held since 2005.
He is far more popular than Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and is believed to be his successor and potentially able to repair long-standing rifts in Abbas’ Fatah movement and Hamas. Some compare him to Nelson Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years before becoming South Africa’s first black president.
Barguti was a senior leader of Fatah on the West Bank of Israeli occupation during the Intifada (Palestinian uprising) that broke out in 2000, and Israel claims he organized an attack killing several people. He was arrested in 2002 and was subsequently sentenced to five life sentences. He refused to defend himself and refused to acknowledge the Israeli courts’ legitimacy.
He supports the establishment of a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel occupied during the 1967 Middle East War, but is opposed by Israeli government and most of its political class.
Abdullah Balgouti
Kuwait-born Barguthi has no direct connection to Marwan, but he is a senior bomb manufacturer in Hamas and commander during Intifada in 2000, and was primarily involved in several infamous attacks on Israeli civilians in Jerusalem.
An Israeli court sentenced the nation to 67 life sentences, the longest life sentence in the country’s history, to 67 life sentences, the longest life sentence in the country’s history, after being found guilty of attacks that killed 66 people, including five Americans.
He is now in his early 50s, and has been found guilty of producing a bomb used in the attack on Hebrew University, which killed five Americans and four Israelis, a suicide bomber at the Pizzeria Subaro branch that killed 15 people, a suicide bomber at a cafe that killed 11 people, and a triple bomber at a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, where 10 people died.
In the sentence, the judges stated that they regret that the death penalty was not an option. The only death penalty carried out by Israel was the death penalty of Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann in 1962.
Ahmed Sadat
Leaders of the Palestine Liberation People’s Front, a small, armed, leftist faction, are accused of organizing the 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zevi, a supernationalist who sought mass expulsion of Palestinians.
Sadat and four PFLP activists directly involved in the murder were eventually arrested by Palestinian police. In April 2002, a provisional court, which was rushed to meet on the West Bank of the then Palestinian leader Jaser Arafat, sentenced the four to one to 18 years in prison. Sadat was not charged and Palestinian authorities said at the time they did not believe Sadat was involved in the murder.
The same year, an internationally intermediary agreement sent him to a Palestinian prison in Jericho, the west bank of the Jordan River. Fearing that he might be released in 2006, Israel attacked the prison He and the other Palestinians were detained. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2008, and is now in his early 70s.
Hassan Salama
Hassan Salama, a senior Hamas militant official, was sentenced to 46 life sentences in 1997 for another attack that killed and injured dozens of people, along with the bombing of two commuter buses in Jerusalem.
After the assassination of Hamas chief bomb maker Yahiya Ayyash in 1996, he led a series of retaliatory attacks. Salama is now in her early 50s and was arrested later that year.
Hamas conducted several major attacks on Israeli civilians in the 1990s, when Israel and Arafat-led Palestinian Liberation Organization negotiated peace talks through US-brokering.
These negotiations often fell apart over the aftermath of the attack and the expansion of Israeli settlements. No substantial negotiations have been made since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to prime minister in 2009.
Abbas al Said
Al Said, now in his late 50s, served as a senior commander in Hamas on the West Bank during Intifada in 2000, was allegedly involved in the most deadly attacks of the riots.
He was sentenced to 35 life sentences and an additional 100 years in prison for multiple attacks, including a suicide bombing at a park hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, where 30 people died and 140 injured while celebrating the Jewish Passover in March 2002.
The attack marked the peak of the uprising, and Israel launched large-scale military operations throughout the occupied West Bank.
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