Jerusalem – Here is a look at some of the 1,027 Palestinian prisoners to be released in a swap between Israel and Hamas:
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Nasser Yateima, 34, from the West Bank town of Tulkarem
Serving 29 life terms for his role in an April 2002 suicide bombing at an Israeli hotel on Passover eve that killed 30 people and triggered Israel’s reoccupation of the West Bank, a military operation called “Defensive Shield.” To be exiled.
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Walid Abdel-Hadi, 31, from Ramallah
Serving 36 life terms for his role in several attacks, including a March 2002 suicide bombing in a Jerusalem cafe that killed 11 people. To be exiled.
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Amna Muna, 35, from Jerusalem
Serving life term since 2001 for luring an Israeli teenage boy over the Internet to the West Bank, where he was killed by waiting militants.
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Ahlam Tamimi, 31, serving 16 life sentences for her role in a suicide bombing, including taking the assailant to the Sbarro franchise in Jerusalem where he killed 16 people in 2001. To be deported to Jordan.
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Nizar Tamimi, 38, from the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Serving a life term for his role in the 1993 kidnapping and killing of an Israeli settler.
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Mohammed Abu Khoussa, 72, from Gaza
In prison since 1976, formerly affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a PLO faction. Serving life term for heading an armed cell that killed several Israeli soldiers in the 1970s.
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Abdel Hadi Ghneim, 46, from Gaza
Arrested on July 6, 1989, the day he grabbed the steering wheel of an Israeli bus and sent it plunging into a ravine near Jerusalem. Serving 16 life sentences for the attack that killed 16 people, including two Canadians and an American. His son Thaer, 22, born just a day before the attack, says his father acted out of anger an Israeli military shooting that paralyzed a friend.
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Fathi Barghouti, 57, and Nael Barghouti, 54, cousins from the West Bank village of Kobar
Arrested in 1978 for membership in an armed cell that kidnapped and killed an Israeli man. Each serving a life term.
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Yehiye al-Sinwar, 49, from the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza
A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a forerunner of Hamas, since the 1980s, and a founder of the Hamas military wing. In prison since 1988, serving four life terms, including his role as mastermind of the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers.
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Mohammed Youssef al-Sharatha, 54, from the Jebaliya refugee camp in Gaza
A leader of a Hamas commando unit. Arrested in 1989, serving three life terms for his role in the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers.
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Jihad Yaghmur, 44, from Jerusalem.
Arrested in 1994 for his role in the capture of an Israeli soldier, Nahshon Waxman, who was killed during an Israeli rescue attempt. Serving life term. To be exiled.
These r not prisoners
They are murderers
I am sorry but Shalit is not worth it.
How do you say Life Sentence in Hebrew?
Chofshi.
The blood of every future victim of these released murderers is on the hands of all those who arranged this ridiculous deal
All those morons who agree that this exchange should take place should read this. Soilders should have cyanide pills to avoid these situations
Netanyahu is a coward! Just sick.
Its crazy but I think we have to do it 4 a jewish life
how could we spare one life and put tens of thousands in jeopardy. these are mass murderers that they freeing. This will only increase the danger for more israelis to be kidnapped.
The Mhara”m Rottenberg A prominent “Rishon” was kidnapped and a large sum of ransom money was requested for his release and he gave a Psak that they shouldn’t give the money since it was a much higher amount than the usual ransom asked at that time and it would cause more kidnappings and he was actually Nifter in captivity. So this current deal is not so simple according to Halacha.
Enemy kidnaps 1; release 1,000 enemy; enemy releases 0; extra enemy kills extra 2,000 / maims 5,000. Enemy kidnaps 1; repeat process.
Wow… I wonder if any of us on here would be worth this much! (lol)
Don’t get me wrong… I *always* want to see Yidden released from foreign prisons! Our family has routinely prayed for Gross, down in Cuba.
But… um… this seems like a BIT much! Arranging an exchange for 1,027 Arab prisoners… for ONE Israeli soldier?!
Don’t get me wrong… if the soldier were MY son, I’d want him out, and I wouldn’t care what it took! I think most mothers (and fathers too, for that matter), would probably agree!
But I would think there would be a certain amount of risk involved when you are in the military. Being killed or captured is part of that risk!
Why should so many murders, REAL terrorists like these animals, be released for one soldier?!
Weren’t there *other* soldiers we could have ALSO got out of Arab prisons, along with this one, so as to make the switch somehow a little more… well… even??
Nevertheless, I am truly grateful for his parents & family that is getting out soon!
Peace and life,if paid for in the coin of humiliation and dishonor, have no value