Gaza negotiations between Hamas and Israel In Egypt they continue, with the Palestinian organization pushing for the release of its six major executives. They are six people who are a “red cloth” for Israel and have been held in prison for decades.
High -ranking Hamas official said that negotiators on both sides (Israel – Hamas) exchanged directories with prisoners and hostages who will be released if an agreement is reached during the ongoing Gaza talks in Egypt. The talks are held in Sharm El Sheikh, with the backdrop of increasing international pressure for peace in Gaza.
The negotiations focus on the mechanisms for the cessation of the conflict, the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza and the exchange agreement, according to Hamas.
Hamas Tahir al-Nounou official expressed optimism about reaching an agreement, stating, according to Reuters, that the organization has shown the necessary positive disposition.
The 6 that Hamas demands from Israel to be released …
Marouan Bargouti – “Palestinian Mandela”
Hamas first of all asks for the release of Marouan Bargouti. Former Fatah executive, Marouan Barguti was arrested by Israeli authorities in 2002 and sentenced to 2004 to five times life lifetime for murders about his role in Second Intifada (2000-2005).
According to his supporters, the motives behind his persecution were politically motivated.
In 2013 he launched a campaign to release from prison in the former Mandela cell in South Africa – while The Economist described Bargouti as Bargouti as last year as Bargouti as “The most important prisoner in the world.”
Between April and May 2017, while leading a large hunger strike of prisoners, the Israeli prison service posted videos that, he claimed, showed Bargouti to eat secretly in his cell. Its supporters described the video fake.
Is often called ‘Mandela of Palestine’, In part because of his long -term imprisonment, his expressed preference for peaceful resistance, but also because He remains one of the most popular leaders of the Palestinian political scene over time.
Its liberation is a firm claim of Hamas in negotiations from time to time. Release could change the dynamics of conflict and post -war Palestine.
Many Israeli politicians consider him their friend. “The only leader who believes in the solution of the two states and will be elected to any other candidate is Marouan Bargouti,” Ami Agialon, a former head of Sin Beth, of the Israeli Internal Security Service, had stated months ago. “It is in our interest to participate in the next Palestinian elections – the sooner, the better.”
However, not all Israelis share his point of view. According to some, the 66 -year -old was neither interested nor interested in peace. ‘Bargouti is as bad as Hamas’, said a retired head of intelligence. “He didn’t change in prison. It became more extreme. “
Some, and they also invoke the case of Chickenthe leader of the Hamas Military Ball, released in 2011 as part of the exchange of prisoners and then became the orchestrator of the events of 7 October.
Barguti’s family has been insisting for years that the trial was set up.
“The judge called him a terrorist at the beginning of his trial,” recalls his son, Arab Barguti. “We’re talking about a judge calling a terrorist before even seeing the details.”
The trial has been widely questioned. According to a report by the Inter -Parliamentary Union, his lawyers did not have access to their client for long periods of time, most witnesses did not personally testify, and the evidence was not presented to independent observers.
His lawyers stressed that the evidence – mainly documents seized by his office – did not directly linked him to the crimes.
Arab Bargouti believes that the case against his father was politically motivated.
“Israel’s greatest fear is a powerful, charismatic Palestinian leader who supports what the international community accepts – the solution of the two states. And my father has been talking about it for over 30 years. “
Since being taken to prison, popular support for Bargouti has not been cut – it has just retired from public views.
In 2006, from his cell, he wrote along with other Palestinian prisoners – including Hamas executives – the so -called “prisoner’s document”, which provided for the operation of a national unity government.
Today, most polls show that Barguti is the man that the Palestinians would like for the next president.
According to the Palestinian Center for Political and Research (PSR), Bargouti remains the most popular candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.
May polls showed that if elections were held, would win 50% of the voteswith current President Mahmoud Abbas coming third, behind Hamas Hamas.
Since September 2023, Bargouti has steadily preceded all measurements on both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – with the sole exception of the investigation that followed the attacks of 7 October.
His close associate, Lighthouse beeswax, He revealed that his political opponents have been aware of his popularity for years.
Before the 2005 presidential election, in which Bargouti intended to be a candidate through prison, Mahmoud Abbas begged him:
“Go to convince your friend not to go down to the elections.” Eventually, Barguti retired a month before the election and Abbas was elected president.
Bargouti is found very high on the list of prisoners that Hamas demands to be liberated within each ceasefire agreement in Gaza. However, it was not among the thousands of Palestinians released during the truce in early 2025.
“It’s not easy, but we always remember that we are just one of the 10,000 families of Palestinian prisoners who are experiencing the same,” says Arab Barguti.
“At the human level, we are like every family waiting for her father to return home and meet his six grandchildren, who has never seen. I haven’t embraced my father for 23 years, ”concludes his son.
There are still 5 people that Hamas asks Israel to be liberated.
Abdalla Bargouti – “The Engineer”
Mary’s cousin, the Abddala Bargouti is known as ‘The Hamas Engineer’ because of his specialty in the bombs. He was sentenced to 67 life in life – the stricter penalty in Israel’s history – for designing long -term attacks, such as bombings at the Sbarro Restaurant (2001) and the University of Jerusalem (2002).
His reputation as a leading bomb maker places him next to Hamas’s flagship figures, such as Yaia Agi. For Israel it is one of the most “forbidden” cases to be liberated, while for Hamas it symbolizes the persistence and technical power of Palestinian resistance.
Ibrahim Hamed – “The Most Dangerous Prisoner”
THE Ibrahim Hamed, Head of Hamas Military Wing on the West Bank on the second Intifada, is considered by Israeli authorities as one of them more dangerous prisoners.
He was arrested in 2006 after years of wanted and served 54 life -long attacks that killed 46 Israelis.
Despite his imprisonment, Hamed received a degree in Political Science and a Masters in International Relations. He has authored studies on the Palestinian affair, and passed eight years in isolation, Seven of which continuing, which reinforced his reputation as a hard -core and incomprehensible militant.
Ahmad Saadat – The Secretary General
THE Ahmad SaadatSecretary General of the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is yet another key form. He was arrested in 2006 after the siege of the Palestinian Authority’s offices in Ramala and sentenced to 30 years in prison for organizing the murder of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zevi.
In his 70s, Saadat has spent decades in Israeli prisons, often in isolation. It remains a symbol of political resistance to the left wing of the Palestinian movement.
Abbas al-Sagid and Hassan Salamah-The Military Commanders
THE Abbas al-Sagid He was sentenced to attack at the Park Hotel in Nettia in 2002, one of the most bloody in the second Infanant. Hasan Salammeh, Hamas’s senior commander, is serving 46 life -long lifetime for a series of bombings in the 1990s. Both are considered architects of Hamas military action against Israel.
The names of these six they hear every time The issue of exchanging prisoners in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations returns to the table.
For Israel, their liberation is equivalent to a threat to national security. On the contrary, for Hamas, their liberation would be an act of justification and strategic victory.
Hamas’ terms to accept Trump plan
According to the organization’s spokesman, Fauzi Barhum these are:
- Permanent and integrated ceasefire.
- Complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from all over Gaza.
- Unlimited entry of humanitarian aid.
- Return of displaced to their homes.
- Immediate start of a complete reconstruction process, under the supervision of a national
- Palestinian Corps of Technocrats.
- Fair agreement of exchanging prisoners.