{"id":3271,"date":"2025-10-13T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/hamas-and-israel-begin-prisoner-exchange-before-gaza-summit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:35:56","slug":"hamas-and-israel-begin-prisoner-exchange-before-gaza-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/hamas-and-israel-begin-prisoner-exchange-before-gaza-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas and Israel begin prisoner exchange before Gaza summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Celebrations in Israel as living captives held by Hamas freed. Israel\u2019s release of about 2,000 Palestinians under way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Hamas has released all 20 of the living captives it had been holding in the Gaza Strip, with the release of about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/11\/us-president-trump-says-israeli-captives-to-be-released-from-gaza-on-monday\">2,000 Palestinian prisoners<\/a> by Israel under way, as the two sides carry out the conditions of the ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers broke out in Israel early on Monday, as television channels announced that the first lot of seven captives had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/quotable\/2025\/10\/12\/palestinians-in-gaza-need-access-to-nutritional\">Palestinians in Gaza need access to \u201cnutritional food\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/12\/palestinian-journalist-saleh-aljafarawi-shot-dead-in-gaza-city-clashes\">Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/10\/13\/u-s-president-donald-trump-arrives-in-israel-to-oversee-gaza-peace-plan\">US President Donald Trump arrives in Israel to oversee Gaza peace plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/12\/israel-expects-to-receive-all-living-captives-from-gaza-on-monday\">Hamas releases first batch of Israeli captives under ceasefire deal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The Israeli military later confirmed that 13 more captives taken from Israel on October 7, 2023, who had been held in Gaza for more than two years, were also transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, preparations for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails were progressing, with buses seen outside the Ofer military prison, in the occupied West Bank, where many of the Palestinian prisoners due to be released were held.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4031888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4031888\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-13T091335Z_737855456_RC2VAHAQNJ89_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-1760347136.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C502&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4031888\">Palestinians gather around Red Cross vehicles transporting hostages, held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, following their handover as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in the central Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025 (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said the prisoners would be released once Israel received confirmation that all the living captives were on Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a post on X, identified the captives released in the first group as Guy Gilboa Dalal, 24, Eitan Mor, 25, Matan Angrest, 22, Alon Ohel, 24, Gali and Ziv Berman, both 28, and Omri Miran, 48.<\/p>\n<p>Families were reunited with their loved ones before the released captives were flown to hospitals for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh said the released captives were \u201creported to be in reasonable condition, walking without needing medical assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ohel\u2019s parents told The Times of Israel that their son \u201clooks amazing\u201d and is \u201cstanding on his own two feet\u201d, while Mor\u2019s mother told Ynet News that her son \u201clooks great, although thin and pale\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Netanyahu\u2019s spokesperson had said Israel expected that all living captives would be released before the 09:00 GMT deadline, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement proposed by United States President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>However, Israel does not expect the repatriation of the bodies of the remaining 28 captives to be completed on Monday, despite a 72-hour deadline agreed under the deal, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-war-is-over\">\u2018The war is over\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>While key questions remain over the future of Gaza and Hamas\u2019s role in the territory, the exchange of captives and prisoners has raised hopes for ending the devastating war, which has ravaged the enclave, with at least 67,806 people killed and 170,066 wounded in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire is also expected to allow for a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza, where famine has broken out amid Israel\u2019s bombardment and blockade of the territory. Many of Gaza\u2019s 2.3 million people are reported to be on the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the transfers, Trump, whose administration played a leading role in putting together the deal, arrived at Israel\u2019s Ben Gurion airport, where he was welcomed by Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to address the Israeli Knesset later on Monday, after which he will fly to Egypt to co-chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/12\/israel-expects-to-receive-all-living-captives-from-gaza-on-monday\">a summit<\/a> on the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe war is over,\u201d Trump told reporters as he left for Israel on Sunday, adding he thought the ceasefire would hold.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Khan Younis, Al Jazeera\u2019s Hind Khoudary said a designated medical point had been set up at the Nasser Medical Complex to offer medical checks to the returning Palestinian prisoners before they are reunited with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Palestinians had gathered outside the hospital waiting to welcome the released detainees, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting in Khan Younis was Yasser Abu Azzoum, whose 23-year-old son Mohammed was set to be released under the deal.<\/p>\n<p>He told Al Jazeera the feeling was \u201cindescribable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not able to speak properly because I am overwhelmed with joy,\u201d Abu Azzoum said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations in Israel as living captives held by Hamas freed. Israel\u2019s release of about 2,000 Palestinians under way. Hamas has released all 20 of the living captives it had been holding in the Gaza Strip, with the release of about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners by Israel under way, as the two sides carry out the conditions &#8230; <a title=\"Hamas and Israel begin prisoner exchange before Gaza summit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/hamas-and-israel-begin-prisoner-exchange-before-gaza-summit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hamas and Israel begin prisoner exchange before Gaza summit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}