Prisoner exchange

Exiled Palestinian official walks back Jared Kushner ceasefire claim as Israeli strikes hit Gaza

"Mr. Jared Kushner confirmed to us that he had agreed with the Israeli side to halt the attacks on Gaza beginning tomorrow morning," Mohammad Dahlan wrote before removing the claims.

Palestinian militant group Hamas fighters secure an area before handing over two Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis.
A woman walks past posters with the portraits of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens held in Iran, on the day of support rallies to mark their three-year detention and to demand their release, in front of the National Assembly in Paris, France, May 7, 2025.

French nationals released from Iran, returning to France, Macron says

HOUTHI SUPPORTERS in Yemen brandish weapons during a demonstration marking Independence Day, the anniversary of the end of British rule in southern Yemen in 1967, in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on November 30, 2025.

Yemeni government, Houthis agree to exchange 3,000 prisoners

A group of students attend a gathering in support of an Iranian student prisoner in France, Mahdieh Esfandiari, in front of the French embassy in Tehran, Iran, October 21, 2025

Iran welcomes conditional release of Iranian student in France


Senior Hamas terrorist released in deal to speak at Athens university

Senior Hamas terrorist released in February as part of a ransom for October 7 Massacre hostages is set to speak at a Wednesday panel at Panteion University in Athens.

Poster for a panel at Panteion University in Athens that will feature Abdel Nasser Issa, a senior Hamas terrorist that was released in February, 2025. October 19, 2025

HCJ rejects petition against hostage release deal

The High Court of Justice rejected a petition to block the release of Palestinian security prisoners in deal.

 A freed Palestinian prisoner holds a flag as they are greeted after being released from an Israeli jail, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025.

Russia's Lavrov outlines terms for Ukraine peace: Big power security guarantee, no NATO

Meanwhile, US VP JD Vance told NBC that Russia has made significant concessions towards peace deal, and Ukrainian President Zelensky thanked UAE for facilitating a prisoner exchange.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, August 21, 2025.

Russia and Ukraine exchange group of younger and wounded prisoners of war

Russia and Ukraine began a large-scale POW exchange on Monday, swapping young and severely wounded soldiers, following a June 2 agreement.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Moses released from Gaza

According to information presented to mediators of the deal, five Thai citizens are also expected to be released by Hamas.

 Agam Berger, Arbel Yehoud y Gadi Moses.

It isn't a hostage 'deal,' it's extortion of Israeli souls - opinion

For more than 10 years, we have warned that appeasement and enabling genocidal terrorists to dictate conduct and equations

 LEFT TO right: Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were released from captivity last week. Anyone with a heart was moved beyond words at their return home, but for the heartless genocidal Hamas barbarians who kidnapped them, human tragedy is the strategy, the writer asserts.

Hamas, PIJ greet 70 Palestinian prisoners in Cairo who were released in ceasefire deal

As part of the agreed hostage-prisoner exchange deal, Israel released 200 terrorist prisoners on Saturday, according to Arab media reports.

 Released Palestinian prisoners in Cairo, 26 January 2025

'Monsters': Families of terror victims grapple with release of murderers as part of deal

"The State of Israel has failed to provide my family and me with security and has failed to deliver justice."

Miriam Fuld, with her children Yakir and Natan in Kfar Etzion cemetery, the West Bank, 2018.

Israel prepares for prisoner exchange as IDF, IPS conclude plans

Most of the prisoners on the list are women, and only one prisoner on the list under the age of 18 at the time of their arrest was convicted of murder.

 Red Cross vehicle is seen near the Ofer Prison, near Jerusalem, January 19, 2025

‘It’s like waiting for a birth’: Families of hostages expected to return Sunday react to news

“This is the moment we have waited for over 11,000 hours. Maybe in the next 24 hours, we will finally embrace Romi."

 Meirav Leshem Gonen with her family, including her daughter Romi, who is still in Hamas captivity.