The Israeli penitentiary service announced, in the night between Monday and Tuesday, that it had released 33 Palestinian prisoners, shortly after Hamas released 11 Israelis who the movement was holding hostage in the Gaza Strip following the attack on the Jewish state on October 7.
Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day truce that began on Friday, during which the movement daily released around ten Israeli hostages, women and children, in exchange for the Jewish state’s release of three times as many Palestinians held in prisons. its prisons, including women. , children and young people under 19 years of age.
The truce will end on Tuesday morning, but the two sides have agreed to extend it until Thursday morning.
The Haaretz newspaper said Tuesday that Israel has received a list of the names of ten detainees who will be released on Tuesday and has informed their families.
In turn, the Times of Israel newspaper said on Monday that the Israeli government had approved a list of 50 Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the deal to extend the temporary truce with Hamas.
Citing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, in a statement around midnight local time, the government agreed to release the fifty on the condition that other Israeli detainees are released.
The newspaper reported that around 20 Israelis would be released in exchange for the 50 Palestinian prisoners, the Arab World News Agency reported.
Previously, Qatar and Hamas announced that they had reached an agreement to extend the humanitarian truce in Gaza for another two days, while the Palestinian movement confirmed the agreement with Qatar and Egypt to extend it “under the same conditions as the previous truce”.
The current truce is expected to end at seven in the morning tomorrow (Tuesday), local time (05:00 GMT).