Israel is expected to release a number of high -level terrorists in exchange for the three Israeli hostages who should be released Thursday – Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger and Gadi Mozes.
Among the 110 prisoners to be released are eminent terrorist condemned Zakaria Zubeidi, Mahmoud Atallah and Ahmed Barghouti, according to several media reports.
Zubeidi, who will return home to the West Bank, organized dozens of attacks during the second intifada while directing the brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyr in Jenin. He was one of the six prisoners who briefly escaped from Gilboa prison in 2021, before being resumed.
Atallah, who is serving a perpetuity imprisonment for the murder of a Palestinian woman suspected of collaboration with Israel, will be released in Naplus. He was charged last September for having sexually assaulted female guards several times in Gilboa prison.
Barghouti, a senior Fatah military official, suffered 13 perpetuity sentences for having made a series of terrorist attacks during the second intifada which killed 12 Israelis. He will be expelled abroad via Egypt.
The authorities have not yet given official information on prisoners to be released Thursday and Saturday, although the public broadcaster Kan said that 33 of them served living conditions for deadly attacks, 47 purge long mandates, and the other 30 are women and women and minors.

Palestinian security prisoner Mahmoud Atallah is accused of having attacked and raped women soldiers from TDI and Gilboa prison guards, in a scandal that alleges that women were “excited ” to Palestinian detainees. (Courtesy)
The Haaretz Daily reported that, among the other prisoners who should be released, the Hamas Mohammed Abu Warda operation, which is serving 48 perpetuity sentences for multiple terrorist attacks, including a bombardment in 1996 on a bus in Jerusalem which killed 45 people; And Sami Jaradat, member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who was responsible for a bombing in 2003 in a Haifa restaurant which killed 21 people.
Abu Warda and Jaradat should be sent to the Gaza Strip or Egypt.
The newspaper said that Ammar on Tuesday, a Jordanian member of the Fatah involved in the murder in 2001 of Yuri Gushchin near Ramallah, will be released after refusing to climb a bus for Gaza during the release of prisoners on weekends -End last, although it remains unclear where he will go.
According to a spokesperson for the Prisons of Israel, the prisoners will be transported to two main reception points, OFER and KTZI’OT Prisons, before being released at home or expelled.
After the three Israeli hostages have returned, the prisoners heading towards the West Bank will be escorted by the Red Cross to a point of liberation, and those which are expelled or released in Gaza will be escorted by the special units of the penitentiary service at Kerem Shalom passage.
No prisoner will be exchanged for the five Thai hostages which should also be released because they are released under a distinct agreement between Hamas and Thailand.

A bus transporting Palestinian prisoners leaves Kziot prison in the Negev desert on January 25, 2025. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)
Thursday’s exchange is part of the first phase of the Liberation Agreement of Coveration and Hosting between Israel and Hamas which entered into force on January 19, under which 50 prisoners are released for each soldier and 30 for each civilian. Israel released 90 prisoners in exchange for three civil hostages at the beginning of last week, followed by 200 additional detainees – of which 121 purge sentences for life for terrorism – in exchange for four women soldiers on Saturday.
During the 42 -day period, 33 Israeli captives detained in Gaza should be released in exchange for 1,904 Palestinian security prisoners, including 737 in the service of life mandates. The other 1,167 are Palestinians detained during the Earth’s offensive of the FDI who did not participate in the October 7 massacre led by Hamas which began the Gaza War.
The discussions have not yet started the second stage in the agreement, in which Hamas should release young relatively healthy male hostages, including soldiers, for whom the terrorist organization is likely to ask Israel to pay A higher price.
Hamas has promised the families of the convicts of eminent terrorists Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat that they will be released from the Israeli prison in the second stage of the agreement, Kan reported Tuesday, quoting an unnamed Palestinian source involved in the negotiations.