Hamas ready for comprehensive prisoner swap deal with Israel — senior official
Some 200 hostages taken in the October 7 attack on Israel remain in the hands of Hamas
BEIRUT, November 28. /TASS/. The Palestinian movement Hamas has expressed readiness for a comprehensive deal on the exchange of prisoners with Israel, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, told the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera.
"If Israel has a serious intention to secure the release of its captured soldiers, we are ready to make a comprehensive agreement," he said.
Some 200 hostages taken in the October 7 attack on Israel remain in the hands of Hamas. The radical movement is seeking to exchange them for their supporters held in Israeli prisons.
Earlier, the movement's Telegram channel published a list of 30 Palestinian prisoners who will be released by the Israeli authorities by the end of the day as part of the humanitarian truce. The list of those to be released by the Israeli side includes 15 women and 15 teenagers, most of them from East Jerusalem and its vicinities, others - from the West Bank.
On November 22, Hamas reported reaching an agreement with Israel, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, on a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip that would last four days. The movement confirmed that the agreements envisage the release of 50 women, children and teenagers held in the enclave in exchange for the release of 150 women, children and teenagers from Israeli prisons. The agreement came into effect at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on November 24, and the first group of hostages was released on the same day.
On November 27, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed bin Mohammed al-Ansari said that Israel and Hamas, with the help of mediators, reached an agreement to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip by two days.