After hours of procrastination, storming and detention - no release
After hours of procrastination and postponement, the occupation government decided to postpone the release of Palestinian prisoners in the seventh batch of the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas in its first phase.
At exactly one o'clock after midnight, the Israeli Prime Minister officially announced the "suspension of the release of Palestinian prisoners." A statement was issued from Prime Minister Netanyahu's office, and said: "In light of Hamas's repeated violations - including celebrations that offend the dignity of our prisoners - it was decided to postpone the release of prisoners planned for yesterday until the release of the following Israeli prisoners is guaranteed, and without any celebrations."
602 prisoners were scheduled to be released in the seventh batch of the first phase of the exchange deal, including 50 prisoners sentenced to life in prison, 60 prisoners with long sentences, 47 prisoners from the “Wafa al-Ahrar/Shalit deal” prisoners who were re-arrested, and 445 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were arrested after October 7.
According to the lists of prisoners that were published on Saturday afternoon - after procrastination and postponement by the occupation authorities in the lists - the following names were included for release in the seventh batch, and they are "according to the years of detention":
1. Hamza Al-Kaloti - sentenced to 6 life sentences and arrested in 2001.
2. Ahed Al-Natsheh - sentenced to 25 years and arrested in 2001.
3. Khaled Al-Halabi - sentenced to 28 years and arrested in 2001.
4. Majdi Al-Za’tari - sentenced to 23 life sentences and 50 years and arrested in 2003.
5. Iyad Al-Mhlwes - sentenced to 120 years and arrested in 2003.
6. Mohammad Abbad - sentenced to 25 years and arrested in 2002.
7. Ahmad Obeid - sentenced to 7 life sentences and 30 years and arrested in 2004.
8. Imad Al-Sharif - sentenced to 27 years and arrested in 2004.
9. Mohammad Khalil Abu Sneineh - sentenced to two life sentences and 40 years and arrested in 2008.
10. Bilal Abu Ghanem - sentenced to 3 life sentences and 60 years and arrested in 2015.
11. Ahmed Nasla - sentenced to 27 years and arrested in 2022 (released in the Shalit deal).
12. Alaa al-Din al-Bazian - Released in the Shalit deal and re-arrested in 2014.
13. Adnan Maragha - Released in the Shalit deal and re-arrested in 2014.
14. Ismail Hijazi - Released in the Shalit deal and re-arrested in 2014.
15. Jamal Abu Saleh - Released in the Shalit deal and re-arrested in 2014.
16. Rajab al-Tahhan - Released in the Shalit deal and re-arrested in 2014.
The center said that the prisoners "Amjad Abu Rmeileh, Nasser Abed Rabbo, and Samer Al-Issawi" refused to be released in exchange for deportation, as Abed Rabbo will end his sentence next August, Amjad Abu Rmeileh will end his sentence after two years, and Samer Al-Issawi will end his sentence after 6 and a half years, noting that their names were included in the lists of prisoners to be released in the first phase of the deal.
The Information Center explained that, according to the names of the prisoners, 11 Jerusalemite prisoners will be deported outside the Palestinian territories.
Summonses, raiding homes, and threats
Since the morning hours of Saturday - when the seventh batch of the exchange deal was scheduled to be released - the occupation intelligence summoned the families of 5 Jerusalemite prisoners: Hamza Al-Kaloti, Ahmed Nasla, Khaled Al-Halabi, Mohammad Abbad, and Ahed Al-Natsheh to the police station, “Room 4”, west of Jerusalem, and informed them of the conditions for the release of the prisoners, which are not to gather, not to fire firecrackers, and not to raise flags or banners.
The intelligence detained the residents for several hours, then asked them to leave the place, and if any information was received, they would be contacted again.
The families said that they returned to the center at 6 and 8 o'clock, but the intelligence did not provide them with any information, and throughout their presence at the place, they were told: "There is no information now, if anything new happens, you will be asked to come to the center."
The occupation authorities follow the procedure of summoning a member of the prisoner's family to Police Station “Room 4”, in exchange deals, and informing him of the conditions of release, and each prisoner and his guardian are taken to his place of residence, where the handcuffs are only removed when the prisoner arrives to the door of his house.
For hours on Saturday, the forces were stationed around the apartment of the prisoners Al-Kaloti and Al-Natsheh in Beit Hanina, and closed the road leading to them, and raided the two apartments several times and searched them and examined those present in the place, and prevented the presence of anyone in each apartment except for its residents.
The forces also stormed the residential apartments in the two buildings that include the apartments of Al-Kaloti and Al-Natsheh, and searched all the apartments and checked the IDs, and threatened to beat and assault the residents if they left the apartments, and demanded that they close all the windows and not go out onto the balconies.
They assaulted the young men while they were nearby, and tried to arrest one of the young men while he was barefoot under the pretext of "filming the forces", and they also attacked a vehicle.
The forces also stormed the vicinity of the home of prisoner Halabi in Beit Hanina, and prisoner Abbad in Ras al-Amoud.
The forces withdrew from in front of the homes of prisoners Al-Kaloti and Al-Natsheh twice: the first time after announcing the postponement of the release time, and the second time after midnight after announcing the suspension of releases.
