Prisoner release

Venezuela releases Israeli prisoner accused of being a 'foreign mercenary'

The call, joined by Harari’s daughters Yael and Yaara, followed more than a year in which Harari was held by authorities in Caracas alongside other Western detainees.

Members of the Bolivarian National Police ride in a vehicle, outside the Helicoide detention center, in Caracas, Venezuela, January 9, 2026
A man shows an image featuring a digitally altered image of the ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro before printing it on a shirt for sale at "Emporio Comercial de Gamarra" in Lima on January 06, 2026.

Venezuela releases political prisoners, including five Spaniards, following US capture of Maduro

Police officers work as people gather outside the Old Bailey after British police officer Martyn Blake was acquitted of the 2022 murder of Chris Kaba, in London, Britain, October 21, 2024.

Several prisoners mistakenly released from UK prisons each week, minister says

Poster for a panel at Panteion University in Athens that will feature Abdel Nasser Issa, a senior Hamas terrorist that was released in February, 2025. October 19, 2025

Senior Hamas terrorist released in deal to speak at Athens university


‘Only Marwan Barghouti, in return for all the Israeli hostages,’ terror victims’ lawyer tells TML

Amid Israel-Hamas hostage talks, speculation grows over freeing Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti. Praised as a unifier, his potential release faces backlash over past deadly attacks.

MARWAN BARGHOUTI is escorted in handcuffs by police into Jerusalem Magistrates Court in 2012.

We must prevent the possibility of October 7 repeating - opinion

Israel has been caught in an impossible dilemma: how to choose or balance between the immediate fate of the hostages and the long-term national security concerns of Israel and its people.

 ‘BRING THEM home now’ graffiti in Tel Aviv: Every poster brandishing ‘now’ and ‘at any price’ was another gain for Hamas in its strategy of extortion, making it even harder to secure the hostages’ release, while endangering their lives and the very chances of the deal, the writer argues.

Justice Ministry adds two additional names to prisoner release list

The Ministry added two additional names to the list: Ahmad Raad Zaid Faroukh and Ahmad Mohammad Nayef Al-Hawamdeh.

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

Jenin and the West Bank: Israel's new battlefronts after Gaza, Lebanon ceasefires - analysis

"On the directive of the Security Cabinet, the IDF, the ISA, and the Israel Police have today begun a...military operation to defeat terrorism in Jenin," Netanyahu said.

 Israeli security forces guard at the scene where three Israelis were murdered in a shooting attack earlier today, near the village of al-Funduq, in the Northern West Bank, January 6, 2025.

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

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

Gilboa prison guards demand terrorist who sexually assaulted them to be deported

Atallah was indicted in September 2023 for the rape of a female prison guard in the “prison pimping” case.

 View of the Gilboa Prison December 5, 2022.

Israel publishes list of 735 terrorists to be freed as part of hostage deal

Among the more familiar names is Zakaria Zubeidi, former commander of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin.

 Hamas terrorists who were caught during the October 7 massacre and during the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024

Justice Ministry releases names of Palestinian prisoners to be released in deal

The list of names on the ministry's website shows that a vast majority of those arrested were after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.

 Palestinian terrorists from Fatah carry their weapons during a parade in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus, September 29, 2023

Former IDF prosecutor: Hostage deals have not worked, only encouraged Hamas

Hirsch explains that there can be no moral equivalence between someone convicted of terror offenses and an innocent civilian.

 Former IDF prosecutor: Hostage deals have not worked, only encouraged Hamas