Prisoner exchange

Russia's Lavrov outlines terms for Ukraine peace: Big power security guarantee, no NATO

Meanwhile, US VP JD Vance told NBC that Russia has made significant concessions towards peace deal, and Ukrainian President Zelensky thanked UAE for facilitating a prisoner exchange.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, August 21, 2025.
 Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Russia and Ukraine exchange group of younger and wounded prisoners of war

 Agam Berger, Arbel Yehoud y Gadi Moses.

Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Moses released from Gaza

 LEFT TO right: Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were released from captivity last week. Anyone with a heart was moved beyond words at their return home, but for the heartless genocidal Hamas barbarians who kidnapped them, human tragedy is the strategy, the writer asserts.

It isn't a hostage 'deal,' it's extortion of Israeli souls - opinion


Hamas, PIJ greet 70 Palestinian prisoners in Cairo who were released in ceasefire deal

As part of the agreed hostage-prisoner exchange deal, Israel released 200 terrorist prisoners on Saturday, according to Arab media reports.

 Released Palestinian prisoners in Cairo, 26 January 2025

'Monsters': Families of terror victims grapple with release of murderers as part of deal

"The State of Israel has failed to provide my family and me with security and has failed to deliver justice."

Miriam Fuld, with her children Yakir and Natan in Kfar Etzion cemetery, the West Bank, 2018.

Israel prepares for prisoner exchange as IDF, IPS conclude plans

Most of the prisoners on the list are women, and only one prisoner on the list under the age of 18 at the time of their arrest was convicted of murder.

 Red Cross vehicle is seen near the Ofer Prison, near Jerusalem, January 19, 2025

‘It’s like waiting for a birth’: Families of hostages expected to return Sunday react to news

“This is the moment we have waited for over 11,000 hours. Maybe in the next 24 hours, we will finally embrace Romi."

 Meirav Leshem Gonen with her family, including her daughter Romi, who is still in Hamas captivity.

Shin Bet chief: 'There are no good deals, but Israel is right to go for this deal'

Nevertheless, Bar admitted that releasing terrorists, some of whom he personally arrested, was "very difficult."

 Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 27, 2022

Walid Daqqah's body will not be returned until hostages are freed, High Court rules

Walid Daqqah was convicted in 1987 for his role as the leader of a terrorist cell responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam.

 View of the Gilboa Prison, near Israel Valley, December 5, 2022

Yulia Navalnaya expresses bittersweet reaction to prisoner swap excluding her late husband

Yulia Navalnaya reflects on the reality of a recent prisoner swap that excluded her late husband, Alexei Navalny, highlighting both the hope and the ongoing struggle for Russia's opposition.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024.

UAE behind successful prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia

The UAE has facilitated at least five similar prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine, the last being in late May of this year.  

 Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan upon arrival at the Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates December 6, 2023

Yom Kippur War: Newly released archives detail Israel's POW deal with Syria

As part of its collection marking fifty years since the Yom Kippur War, the National Archives of Israel has detailed the role of US Sec. of State Henry Kissinger in the Israel-Syria negotiations.

 Long-range 175mm artillery in action on the Syrian Front, Yom Kippur War

Hamas rejects hostage deal, Gallant blames its leadership abroad - report

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Monday the organization was open to discussing ideas but that no deal was yet in place.

HAMAS LEADER Ismail Haniyeh gestures during a news conference in Gaza City earlier this month

Released Palestinian terrorist refuses to leave Israeli jail

Abu Sanima was released to the Gaza Strip to begin his life anew in Rafah, despite a lack of a salary from local authorities.

IDF with Palestinian demonstrators during a rally in solidarity with six Palestinian prisoners who managed to esacpe from an Israeli prison a few days ago, in Hebron, September 9, 2021.