Hamas announces four Israeli prisoners will be released in the latest ceasefire exchange News of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Hamas says that four female soldiers will be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday.

Hamas announced the names of four Israeli female soldiers that it will release in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the second exchange under the agreement Ceasefire in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it received the list submitted by Hamas on Friday but did not confirm the names.

The exchange, expected to begin Saturday afternoon, comes on the heels of… Release on SundayOn the first day of the ceasefire, three Israeli women and 90 Palestinian prisoners were exchanged, the first exchange of its kind in more than a year.

In the first, six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel agreed to release 50 Palestinian prisoners for every female soldier released, officials said.

This indicates that 200 Palestinian prisoners will be released at the end of this week in exchange for the release of the four Israelis.

However, some reports indicated that the list was not in line with the terms of the ceasefire, and Israel had expected certain civilians to be included in the final list to be released.

“Israel wanted to release civilians first, then soldiers and then those who were deemed seriously ill as part of the first phase of this deal,” said Hamdouh Salut, Al Jazeera’s correspondent from Amman, Jordan.

Since the release of the three women on Sunday and the recovery of the body of an Israeli soldier missing for ten years, Israel has said that 94 Israelis and foreigners remain detained in Gaza.

The ceasefire, reached after months of on-and-off negotiations brokered by Qatar and Egypt and backed by the United States, brought fighting to a halt for the first time since a truce that lasted just one week in November 2023.

In the first stage, Hamas agreed to release 33 prisoners in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli prisons.

At a later stage, the two sides will negotiate the exchange of remaining prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, which is largely in ruins after 15 months of Israeli fighting and bombing.

Israel The war on Gaza At least 47,283 Palestinians have been killed and 111,472 others injured since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 people were captured.