{"id":53159,"date":"2025-02-27T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-begins-to-release-hundreds-of-palestinian-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:21:31","slug":"israel-begins-to-release-hundreds-of-palestinian-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-begins-to-release-hundreds-of-palestinian-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel begins to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli authorities are conducting DNA tests to confirm the identities of Shlomo Mansour, Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, and Itzik Elgarat, who were abducted during the October 7, 2023, attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange took place early Thursday, with Palestinian prisoners receiving a welcome in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the final exchange under the current ceasefire phase, which is set to end on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has previously criticized Hamas for the treatment of hostages during handovers, accusing the group of public humiliation. Sources indicate that this time, Hamas complied with Israel\u2019s demand for a private transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Among Palestinians to be freed are more than 400 Gazans detained during the war and 50 prisoners serving life sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Footage showed buses departing Israeli prisons and arriving in Palestinian territories, where families and supporters gathered to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>The hostage exchange comes amid uncertainty over whether the ceasefire will be extended or transition into a second phase, which could involve the release of all remaining living hostages in Gaza in exchange for additional Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations for the next phase, initially expected to begin during this round, have yet to commence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, thousands in Israel attended the funeral of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, who were killed while in captivity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82550\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/12-63.jpg\" alt=\" Israel began the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday. Photo by Reuters \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages as the latter began the release of over 600 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000082549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000082549,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/aa824bfa-c19b-4ccc-b9bd-6bd1d1282a8f_0.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53159"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53159"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}