Will Israel conclude an agreement with Hamas regarding the prisoners?
Deal was to take place on a humanitarian basis, after Hamas understood that prisoners who participated in the killing of Israelis would not be released
Shrouq
It seems that there are contacts taking place between Israel and Palestine regarding an expected prisoner exchange deal, which was announced by the Israeli newspapers during this period.
The Israeli Channel 12 revealed details of contacts it said took place before the last Israeli elections in November, with Hamas in an attempt to reach a prisoner exchange deal.
· A deal between Israel and Palestine
The Israeli Channel indicated that this movement began with the entry of Yair Lapid into the premiership, who showed greater flexibility than Naftali Bennett to reach a compromise with Hamas in this file.
The Israeli channel quoted a "political source" as detailing the deal, as it was very close to the Israeli positions, and the public would have accepted it because it was much less than the demands that Hamas had made before.
According to the Israeli source, "the deal was to take place on a humanitarian basis, after Hamas understood that prisoners who participated in the killing of Israelis would not be released."
· Abraham Mengistu
The soldier in the Israeli occupation army, the prisoner of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Abraham Mengistu, whose origins go back to Ethiopia and he is from the Falasha sect, which is attached to the Jews and whose Judaism is not recognized by some influential rabbis in the racist Israeli society.
The resistance captured Mengistu in Gaza in 2014, a settler from the occupied city of Ashkelon, and in July 2015, Israeli censorship allowed the publication of the news of his disappearance after he infiltrated the separation fence in the northern Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, the "Al-Qassam Brigades" broadcast a video message to the soldier, "Mengistu", calling on the occupation government to work for his release, and he said: "How long will my friends and I remain here in captivity? Where is the state (Israel) and its people from our fate?"
This message coincides with the exchange of positions in the Chief of Staff of the occupation army and the inauguration of "Herzi Halevi" as a new commander to succeed "Aviv Kochavi".
