Israel Will Exchange 11 Hamas Prisoners With Fatah Prisoners

Israeli Military/DOK Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

JAKARTA - Israeli military radio reported 11 detainees from Hamas will be released to exchange with 11 Fatah detainees as part of the Gaza agreement. Hamas said there had been "last minute" changes regarding who would be released.

Reported by Reuters on Friday, October 10, Hamas is expected to release 20 Israeli hostages who are still alive together, 72 hours after the start of the ceasefire.

In addition, Israel will release 250 Palestinians serving a lengthy sentence in Israeli prisons, as well as another 1,700 who have been arrested since the war broke out on October 7, 2023.

Regarding the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Israel began to gradually withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip, Palestine, on Friday and will withdraw completely within 24 hours to an agreed location, according to local media.

The troop withdrawal was part of a plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to end the war in the Palestinian enclave surrounded by Israel.

"In the next 24 hours, the Israeli army will complete its troop withdrawal from several areas in the Gaza Strip to the yellow line, as agreed in Trump's plan between Israel and Hamas," Channel 12 reported.

The Israeli television station said troops were expected to retreat to the east from Rafah and Khan Yunis in the south as well as from northern Gaza to approaching the border with Israel.

On Thursday morning, Trump announced Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas had reached an agreement on the first phase of a ceasefire plan and a prisoner swap.

The agreement was reached indirect negotiations between the two warring parties in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with the participation of delegates from Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar, under US scrutiny.