The family of the soldier killed warns that the Gaza agreement could release the dangerous killer of Hamas

While President Donald Trump is preparing to finalize his plan at 20 points to end the war in Gaza, Israel faces a crucial decision that could reshape the consequences of the conflict. The framework plans a progressive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the return of all hostages and a major exchange of prisoners. In exchange, Hamas would engage in favor of disarmament and would allow a technocratic transitional authority to manage the reconstruction of Gaza.

Part of the agreement implies the release of hundreds of condemned Palestinian terrorists, a clause which has already sparked negative reactions from the families of the victims.

Dr. Michael Milshtein, director of the Moshe Dayan forum at the University of Tel Aviv and one of the greatest Israeli experts in Hamas, told Fox News Digital that the list of around 250 prisoners contains names that represent what he called “a real strategic danger”.

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Palestinian terrorists from Hamas are custody of the day of the delivery of the hostages detained in Gaza since the deadly attack on October 7, 2023, as part of a ceasefire and an agreement to exchange hostages and prisoners between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on February 22, 2025. (Reuters/Hatem Khaled/Archives)

“They are not low -level activists,” said Mshshtein. “Among them are people who have built their power and their influence in prison. Once released, they will return as leaders.”

He has cited several examples which, according to him, demonstrate the risk of past exchanges. Among the prisoners currently under discussion are Abbas Al-Sayed, found guilty of the bomb attack on the Park Hotel in Netanya in 2002, which killed 30 people; Ibrahim Hamed, former military commander of Hamas in the West Bank, serving more than 40 sentences of perpetuity imprisonment; Abdullah Barghouti, who has produced explosives for a series of large-scale suicide bombings, and Hassan Salameh, sentenced to having orchestrated several attacks against buses in the 1990s.

Ibrahim Hamed, former head of the Hamas terrorist movement in the West Bank, looks at his arrival at the OFER military court, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, on July 1, 2012. The Israeli military court sentenced Hamed to 54 prison sentences after having found him guilty of having ordered attacks that killed dozens of Israelis, said the army.

“These are people sentenced to dozens of perpetuity prison terms,” ​​said Milshtein. “We have already seen what is happening when such personalities are released. Many of those who have perpetrated the massacre of October 7 were prisoners released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit agreement.”

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Mulshtein noted that several recently released prisoners quickly joined Hamas management abroad. He spoke of Abdel Nasser Issa, a member of Hamas sentenced in 1995, released earlier this year and soon transferred to Turkey, where he began to appear in podcasts as a member of the group’s superior political level. “It’s the model,” said Mshshtein. “They enter prison as an agents and come out as decision -makers.”

Among the most worrying names, he added, is that of Jamal al-Hur, which he described as “one of the five most dangerous”. Al-Hur, deeply linked to the hierarchy of Hamas, has served nearly three decades in prison and now plays the role of key intermediary between imprisoned members and the group’s external leaders. “He did not enter as a leader but has become an interior leader,” said Milshtein. “If he is released, he will quickly recover, just as others have done before him.”

Jamal al-Hur, on the left, and Rahman Ismael Ranimat, on the right, were taken to an Israeli military court in Lod, Israel, on February 5, 1998. An Israeli military court charged the two men of several murder leaders in the murder of 13 Israelis in a series of Hamas attacks. (Danni Salomon/Yedioth/AFP via Getty Images)

Warning from the Edri family

Al-Hur’s inclusion on the preliminary list has renewed anxiety for Sharon Edri’s family, the Israeli soldier whom he helped to kidnap, torture and assassinate in 1996. Al-Hur was also found guilty of the bomb attack on the Apropo Café in Tel Aviv in 1997, which killed 13 civilians. Both of the names, his name on the Liberation Lists proposed and had been removed under public pressure.

“I know what it is not to know where her brother is for seven months,” said Danielle Edry Karten, Edri’s sister, who lives in New York. “There is nothing that makes me happier than knowing that families will soon be gathered The hostages. But this man should not be released, not only because of my brother, but because of the danger he still represents. »»

Sharon Edri is seen here with her sister, Danielle Edri Karten. Edri Karten opposes the release of his brother’s assassin.

“He kidnapped, mutilated, tortured my uncle,” said Izzy Karten, Edri’s nephew, in an interview with Fox News Digital from New York. “He went to prison, was released and committed the bomb attack on the Apropo Café. Later, he helped organize the kidnapping of the three boys who sparked the 2014 war. He is now a senior Hamas leader in prison, which is why we call him the next sinwar.”

Banners with the photo of Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist leader of Hamas killed in an Israeli attack, are hung in the streets of Tehran, Iran, on October 19, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Karten added: “We are not against the peace agreement. We pray that the hostages go home. We just have to make sure that they do not exchange them for the worst of the worst.”

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The family launched this week a new petition calling on the Israeli government to block the release of al-Hur and to ban any future exchange involving guilty murderers.

Sharon Edri, an Israeli soldier kidnapped and killed by the terrorist of Hamas Jamal Al-Hor in 1996, is represented in a family photo provided by the Edri family, who opposes the planned liberation of his assassin as part of a possible exchange of prisoners. (Edri family)

During the funeral of Sharon Edri almost thirty years ago, Netanyahu had sworn to the family: “We say to the killers: you will not break the people and the family. We will not forget him and your daughter Hana. We will end terror and bring peace. The family is now afraid that the promise will be canceled.

Noukhba’s dilemma

Beyond the list of notorious prisoners, another question threatens to derail the negotiations: Hamas’ requirement to release around 90 members of its elite force “Nukhba”, the commandos which led the most horrible atrocities during the attack on October 7 against the Israeli communities.

Milshtein, who visited the Ramla prison section where some of these terrorists are detained, said they were unrepentant. “I told them about it,” he told Fox News Digital. “They are fanatical, completely committed. They show no remorse. The only thing they regret is not to have killed more people.”

Hamas terrorists killed civilians, including women, children and the elderly, when they attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. (Israeli defense forces via AP)

He described Nukhba detainees as the most ideologically extremist and operational among the ranks of Hamas. “They are like a special forces division with a radical vision of the world,” he said. “Liberating them would amount to liberating people who planned and executed the worst day in the history of Israel.”

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Despite the risks, Milshtein admitted that Israel may not have an alternative. “It’s a terrible dilemma,” he said. “But strategically, this could be one of these bitter compromises that Israel will have to do to bring its citizens home.”