On the morning of 13 October 2025, the Asra Media Office published the lists of Palestinian prisoners to be liberated today by the Hamas in the latest stage of the prisoner exchange taking place as part of the ongoing ceasefire agreement in Gaza. The Palestinian prisoners to be liberated have already boarded buses in Ofer and Ketziot Detention center — after being subjected to torture, abuse and attempted humiliation inside the occupation prisons, once again.

Israeli restrictions:

Israeli forces have fropped by drone and distributed leaflet threatening the families of the liberated prisoners by ordering them not to hold celebrations.

They arrested and detained their fathers, brothers and sons in multiple invasions and attacks on villages, cities and refugee camps in the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

Exile of over 150 prisoners instead of return home.

Prior denial of family visits, prolonging separation and emotional strain.

Prisoner transfers between facilities before release, often under strict monitoring.

Attack on the families and journalists near Ofer prison:

The families attempting to meet their loved ones, along with Palestinian and international journalists covering the event near Ofer Prison, were subjected to tear gas, stun grenades, and even live ammunition. Armored vehicles also fired in Beituna, a village near the prison.

One young man was wounded by live bullets.

The detaines released in West Bank:

Among those released were 250 Palestinians sentenced to prison terms, most of them convicted by the unfair Israeli military court for deadly attacks on Israelis dating back decades, as well as others convicted on lesser charges. Of those, Israel exiled 154, sending them to neighboring Egypt, where officials said they will be sent to third countries.

The rest were returning to homes in east Jerusalem & the West Bank.

The agreement also includes 1,718 Palestinian hostages abducted in Gaza and held in Israeli detention facilities since the Israeli ground invasion in October 2023. They were released in Gaza the same day, after Hamas freed 20 Israeli prisoners (all male IDF members) who had been held since October 7, 2023.

Some testimonies

As part of the October 2025 prisoner release deal, two Palestinian prisoners from Hebron had very different fates:

Muhammad Ahmad Imran – detained in December 2022 and sentenced to 13 life terms, was exiled by Israel rather than allowed to return home. Israel’s exile policy affects over 150 of the 250 prisoners released, restricting their movements and likely preventing families from seeing them again. His siblings, Ibtisam and Raed Imran, traveled to Ramallah expecting to welcome him, but faced Israeli threats forbidding celebrations or messages of solidarity.

Hani al-Zeir – arrested on June 28, 2002, sentenced to 25 years, and served 23 years, was freed and returned home. He reunited with his brother Bassam al-Zeir at the Ramallah Cultural Centre, accompanied by cousin Arafat al-Zeir, who was also released but had deteriorating health and required medical attention. Israeli restrictions prevented families from fully celebrating the reunion.

Kamal Abu Shanab, a 51-year-old from the West Bank town of Tulkarem who was released after more than 18 years in prison: “It was an indescribable journey of suffering — hunger, unfair treatment, oppression, torture and curses — more than anything you could imagine,” He said he lost 139 pounds (59 kilograms) in prison. “We don’t recognize him. He’s not the person we knew. Our uncle doesn’t look like our uncle,” said his niece, Farah Abu Shanab. A military court in 2007 convicted Abu Shanab of “military trainings, voluntary manslaughter and membership in an unrecognized organization,” according to Israel’s list of exchanged prisoners. He was arrested that year during an Israeli raid targeting members of the armed wing of Fatah, the political party that runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

The list of 250 life and long sentence prisoners to be liberated:

Some of the freed prisoners will return home, while others will be forcibly deported from their homeland:

1. Abdallah Abdel Latif Ali Barham
2. Abdel Jawad Youssef Abdel Jawad Al-Shamasneh
3. Abdel Rahman Mohammed Abdel Rashdan
4. Abdel Rahman Suleiman Ali Othman
5. Abdel Salam Abdallah Ahmad Amr
6. Adeeb Ahmad Abdallah Abu Al-Rab
7. Adnan Mohammed Hassan Al-Obayat
8. Ahmad Adel Jaber Saadeh
9. Ahmad Hassan Mahmoud Al-Shmarikha
10. Ahmad Hussein Ahmad Awad
11. Ahmad Hussein Ahmad Madi
12. Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Qanba’
13. Ahmad Mahmoud Ali Ka’abneh
14. Ahmad Muhannad Mohammed Siyajat
15. Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Basharat
16. Ahmad Nafith Nasser Sharbati
17. Ahmad Othman Ahmad Kafina
18. Ahmad Sari Mohammed Hussein
19. Ahmad Tawfiq Ahmad Abdel Rahman
20. Ahmad Taysir Khalil al-Ardah
21. Ahmad Wasif Sidqi Abu Hanani
22. Ahmad Youssef Abdel Rahman Shinnawi
23. Akram Samih Ahmad Abu Bakr
24. Al-Mahdi Ezzedine Taha Ramadan
25. Alaa El-din Fahmi Fahd Al-Karki
26. Alaa El-Din Omar Mohammed Zakarna
27. Ali Abdel Latif Mustafa Sayees
28. Ali Mohammed Ali Al-Obayat
29. Ali Qasid Al-Hajj Juma Hamed
30. Ali Youssef Mohammed Alayan
31. Allam Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Rai
32. Amin Ahmad Jamil Shqeirat
33. Amjad Nader Mohammed Yehya
34. Ammar Mohammed Aref Samhan
35. Amr Mahmoud Ahmad Hameel
36. Anan Zahi Abdel Aziz Al-Shalabi
37. Anas Akef Jamil Shtayyeh
38. Anas Mustafa Mahmoud Allan
39. Arafat Mohammed Abdel Hamid al-Zeer
40. Ashraf Abdel Qader Hussein Al-Hajajrah
41. Ashraf Rabhi Abdel Khaleq Hanaisha
42. Assaf Hafez Hussein Zahran
43. Atiyah Hassan Atiyah Abu Samhadaneh
44. Ayham Fouad Nayef Kamamji
45. Ayman Abdel Majid Ashour Sidr
46. Ayman Hassan Mohammed Kurd
47. Ayman Mahmoud Hassan Joudeh
48. Ayman Omar Mohammed Ali Ja’ar
49. Ayman Rabhi Mustafa Al-Sharabati
50. Azzam Nabil Saeed Diab
51. Baha Youssef Abdel Qader Shabrawi
52. Baher Mohammed Mahmoud Badr
53. Basel Abdel Karim Nassar Abu Tamam
54. Bassam Mohammed Ahmad Ghneimat
55. Bassam Mohammed Najeeb Raji Bustami
56. Bassam Salim Abdel Rahman Abu Safaqa
57. Bassem Mohammed Saleh Adeeb Khandaqji
58. Bilal Abbas Khadr Abdel Fattah
59. Bilal Salem Abdel Majid Ajramah
60. Daoud Ahmad Mohammed Sbeih
61. Dhafer Ahmad Omar Barham
62. Diaa Ahmad Ali Matar
63. Faisal Mahmoud Abdallah Khalifa
64. Fareed Zaki Faiz Khawaja
65. Fawaz Saba’ Faiz Ab’arah
66. Firas Sadiq Mohammed Ghanem
67. Firas Suleiman Hassan Khaliliya
68. Habes Mahmoud Youssef Bayoud
69. Habib Fawaz Khamis Abu Abed
70. Haitham Al-Mutfiq Khalil Hamdan
71. Haitham Khalil Youssef Al-Qaq
72. Hamdallah Abdel Hadi Abdel Aziz Sarmeh
73. Hamdallah Fayeq Hassan Ali
74. Hamza Mohammed Mustafa Salameh
75. Hamza Omar Abdel Fattah Al-Shamarha
76. Hamza Saleh Ahmad Taqtuq
77. Hani Hamad Mousa Zeer
78. Haroun Idris Ahmad Eyad
79. Hashim Sa’ad Saeed Mona
80. Hijazi Ali Hassan Al-Qawasmeh
81. Hikmat Khaled Ahmad Abdel Jalil
82. Hisham Ahmad As’ad Ka’abi
83. Hussam Mohammed Ali Matar
84. Hussein Mustafa Hassan Al-Louh
85. Hussein Sharif Hussein Ghawadra
86. Ibrahim Hassan Amin Salameh
87. Ibrahim Mas’ad Elias Hani
88. Ibrahim Saleh Mustafa Alaqam
89. Ihab Abdel Rahman Mohammed Al-Haddad
90. Imad Abdel Karim Abdel Aziz Roum
91. Imad Mohammed Ahmad Al-Sarraj
92. Imad Mohammed Jamil Shahadeh
93. Imad Salah Abdel Fattah Qawasmeh
94. Ismail Mousa Mohammed Hamdan
95. Issam Ahmad Mahmoud Zain Al-Din
96. Issam Mahmoud Mohammed Faroukh
97. Iyad Ali Omar Al-Qawasmeh
98. Iyad Hassan Hussein Fatafta
99. Iyad Mohammed Ahmad Abu Al-Rub
100. Izz al-Din Khaled Hussein Hamamra
101. Izzat Amin Mohammed Turkman
102. Ja’far Hamdi Abdel Samee’ Al-Zaatari
103. Jabr Abdel Latif Dheeb Nassasrah
104. Jamal Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Dagher
105. Jihad Abdel Karim Abdel Aziz Roum
106. Kamal Jamil Mahmoud Abu Shanab
107. Kamel Mahmoud Hassan Atatreh
108. Kamil Saeed Hassan Abu Hanish
109. Karam Abdel Raouf Mahmoud Hassan
110. Khaled Mohammed Ahmad Sabah
111. Khalil Mahmoud Youssef Abu Aram
112. Khalil Youssef Mohammed Shalou
113. Kheiry Hassan Mohammed Ali Salameh
114. Lotfi Muneeb Ali Rashdan
115. Majdi Saeed Abdel Rahim Mleitat
116. Maher Hamdi Zuhair Rushdi Al-Hashlamoun
117. Mahmoud Abdallah Al-Ardah
118. Mahmoud Ali Hassan Qawasmeh
119. Mahmoud Basem Mahmoud Abu Junaid
120. Mahmoud Jamil Hassan Abu Srour
121. Mahmoud Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abu Khosseh
122. Mahmoud Mohammed Awad Al-Obayat
123. Mahmoud Mousa Issa Issa
124. Mahmoud Salem Salman Sarahneh
125. Mahmoud Youssef Ahmad Abu Dawood
126. Mahmoud Youssef Nimer Khateeb
127. Majed Ismail Mohammed Masri
128. Mansour Atef Khadr Rayan
129. Marwan Ibrahim Mohammed Abdel Aziz
130. Muqaddam Ibrahim Abdel Raouf Jabr
131. Moataz Mohammed Fakhri Abdallah Haimouni
132. Moaz Ahmad Qasim Haj Ali
133. Mohammed Abdel Baset Ouda Haroub
134. Mohammed Abdel Fattah Hussein Kharousha
135. Mohammed Abdel Hassan Zawahreh
136. Mohammed Adel Hassan Dawood
137. Mohammed Adnan Hosni Abu Al-Hassan
138. Mohammed Ahmad Ibrahim Turkman
139. Mohammed Ahmad Kamel Zakarna
140. Mohammed Ahmad Salem Al-Khatib
141. Mohammed Alaa Mohammed Bani Ouda
142. Mohammed Aref Rashid Ouda
143. Mohammed Fathi Dheeb Ayoush
144. Mohammed Ghazi Mohammed Yadak
145. Mohammed Hashem Ahmad Nuwara
146. Mohammed Hosni Hassan Abu Shaheen
147. Mohammed Hussein Abdel Aziz Abu Hadeed
148. Mohammed Jamal Mohammed Aql
149. Mohammed Jibran Mohammed Khalil
150. Mohammed Kamel Khalil Omran
151. Mohammed Khaled Mohammed Reda Khatib
152. Mohammed Mahmoud Saeed Abu Taa
153. Mohammed Mahmoud Salem Sabbarneh
154. Mohammed Mamoun Mohammed Muhaisen
155. Mohammed Muwafaq Salman Shishtari
156. Mohammed Radwan Mustafa Daraghmeh
157. Mohammed Rajab Hassan Abu Qateish
158. Mohammed Rajeh Fad Al-Khalidi
159. Mohammed Rajeh Mohammed Haroub
160. Mohammed Reda Abdel Sa’eedi
161. Mohammed Saeed Ahmad Abu Shalbayeh
162. Mohammed Salem Abdel Beden
163. Mohammed Sobhi Mohammed Abu Tabeikh
164. Mohammed Youssef Abdel Jawad Al-Shamasneh
165. Mohammed Zakaria Mohammed Hammami
166. Mohammed Ziad Ahmad Khranbeh
167. Mohammed Ziad Mohammed Abu Al-Rabb
168. Mondher Mahmoud Khalil Nour
169. Mousa Saeed Mousa Soufan
170. Mousa Sami Mohammed Al-Sarouji
171. Munir Abdallah Mar’i Mar’i
172. Murad Badr Abdallah Du’ais
173. Murad Mohammed Reda Ahmad Abu Al-Rabb
174. Mus’ab Mohammed Abdel Karim Quzah
175. Na’im Jihad Na’im Al-Misran
176. Nabil Hassan Abdel Aziz Abu Khdeir
177. Nader Radwan Abdel Hakim Abu Turki
178. Nader Saleh Mamdouh Sadaqa
179. Nadim Mohammed Fawzi Awad
180. Nahed Faraj Jadou’ Al-Aqra’
181. Naif Ahmad Salem Obayat
182. Nasr El-Din Bilal Mohammed Shehadeh
183. Nasri Ayed Hussein Asi
184. Nasser Aziz Mohammed Dar Salah
185. Nasser Hassan Abdel Hamid Abu Surur
186. Nasser Ibrahim Hussein Al-Obayat
187. Nazeer Marzouq Rashid Dar Ahmad
188. Nazih Mohammed Najeeb Zaid
189. Nidal Abdallah Ahmad Amro
190. Nour Al-Din Tha’er Ahmad Shanawi
191. Omar Ahmad Ayoub Asida
192. Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Bseisu
193. Omar Muwafaq Shahadeh Eid
194. Osama Mohammed Idris Abdel-Mo’ti Al-Saeed
195. Othman Ibrahim As’ad Younes
196. Qasim Aref Khalil Al-Asafrah
197. Qusai Ishaq Mohammed Abu Hitta
198. Ra’ed Abdel Aziz Mohammed Abu Sanbal
199. Ra’ed Abdel Ghani Suleiman Kanaan
200. Ra’ed Ahmad Abdallah Abu Dhaher
201. Ra’ed Mahmoud Jamil Al-Sheikh
202. Rabee’ Ibrahim Hussein Dar Rabee’
203. Rami Mohammed Mahmoud Nour
204. Ramzi Khamis Mahmoud Brash
205. Ramzi Mohammed Abdel Hamid Obeid
206. Rashid Rashid Mahmoud Omar
207. Rateb Ali Hassan Nabhan
208. Riyad Dakhl Allah Ahmad Al-Amour
209. Saadi Ali Saadi Abu Hammad
210. Saber Mohammed Jibrin Al-Masalmeh
211. Saeed Mohammed Saeed Basharat
212. Salam As’ad Mohammed Zaghal
213. Saleh Qeni Saleh Mansour
214. Salem Mohammed Salem Bawaqneh
215. Salman Ahmad Ezzat Omran
216. Samer Ahed Abdallah Abu Diak
217. Samer Haider Sha’ban Ayat
218. Samer Mahmoud Dawood Al-Halabiyeh
219. Sami Juma Hassan Awfi
220. Sami Khaled Ahmad Al-Fatilah
221. Samir Ibrahim Mahmoud Abu Nimah
222. Shadi Talat Awad Balawneh
223. Sufyan Omar Mousa Ajlouni
224. Suhail Mohammed Youssef Shqeirat
225. Suleiman Dawood Abdel Radaideh
226. Suleiman Hammad Afnan Al-Hathalin
227. Talib Mousa Eid Shahadeh Mukhamera
228. Tariq Adnan Ahmad Hussein
229. Tariq Ahmad Abdel Karim Hussain
230. Tariq Hassan Ahmad Azam
231. Tariq Khaled Mohammed Tabash
232. Tariq Rashad Anis Bassalat
233. Tayoun Abdel Hadi Khalil Tayoun
234. Wael Hijazi Yassin Abu Shkheidam
235. Wael Zaid Basheer Tablat
236. Waleed Khaled Mohammed Mansour
237. Wasim Omar Abdel Karim Mleitat
238. Wisam Ali Mohammed Radi
239. Yahya Nimer Ahmad Ibrahim
240. Yasser Ayoub Abdel Fattah Asfour
241. Yasser Fahmi Hosni Sawalmeh
242. Yasser Ibrahim Mohammed Hattab
243. Youssef Abdel Halim Youssef Daoud
244. Youssef Ibrahim Youssef Bani Jami’
245. Youssef Mohammed Hamad Hadalin
246. Youssef Nimer Mohammed Abu Qandeel
247. Youssef Saeed Atiyah Zuhour
248. Youssef Samir Mahmoud Shuaibi
249. Zaid Shaker Abdel Rahman Al-Junaidi
250. Ziyad Abdel Aziz Aref Hanani

Among them they are Mahmoud al-Ardah, the leader of the Freedom Tunnel operation, the escape from Gilboa prison; Ayham Kamamji, his comrade in the Freedom Tunnel escape; Kamil Abu Hanish, the imprisoned writer and PFLP leader serving 9 life sentences; Bassem Khandaqji, the imprisoned Palestinian novelist and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fuction serving 3 life sentences; Mahmoud Issa, imprisoned since 1993, Palestinian student, writer and the creator of Al-Qassam cells in Jerusalem dedicated to the liberation of Palestinian prisoners