Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Two of Gilbou’s Six Breakers are set to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Around 2,000 Palestinian detainees are also expected to be freed in exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza on Monday. On Monday, Hamas concluded the release of 20 living Israeli captives. In exchange, 1,968 Palestinian detainees, including 250 sentenced to life, will be released.

• Among them are 1,700 Palestinians from Gaza.
• Another 250 prisoners are serving life or long sentences.
• Of those, 135 will be deported to Gaza or exiled abroad, 100 are expected to be sent to the occupied West Bank, and 15 will be released in occupied East Jerusalem.

Gilbou’s Six Breakers Mahmoud Arda and Ayham Kamamji, along with four inmates, Munadel Infeiat, Zakaria Zubaidi, Yaaqob Qadri and Mohammad Arda, managed to escape from the high-security Gilbou Prison on September 6, 2021, by digging a tunnel beneath it. However, the Israeli occupation recaptured them after a few days of large-scale sweep operations throughout occupied Palestine using high-tech systems. They were then subjected to physical violence. Israel issued an additional sentence against Kamamji and Arda of 5 years. In January 2025, the Palestinian resistance secured the release of two others, Zubaidi and Mohmmad Arda, as part of a prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement in Gaza in January 2025 following 15 months of Israeli bombardment. Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, had announced that no future prisoner exchange deal will take place without the release of the six heroes.