It’s the second week of the hostages-for-criminals exchange. Four Israeli girls have been swapped for 200 Palestinian prisoners, including some convicted of terrorist murders. More on this lopsided deal, and a list of the “Palestinians” to be freed, can be found here: “Who are the Palestinian terrorist prisoners released as part of Gaza hostage deal?,” by Noa Feigenbaum, Jerusalem Post, January 25, 2025:
As part of the agreed hostage-prisoner exchange deal, Israel released 200 terrorist prisoners on Saturday, according to Arab media reports.
This included more than half who were serving life sentences for terror attacks that killed dozens….
Here is a list of the prisoners who were released on Saturday:
- Ibrahim Khalil Ahmad Salah
- Mahmoud Isa / Mahmoud Ahmad As’ad
- Abdul Latif Muhammad Lutfi Ahmad Hamada
- Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Al-Shibani
- Muhammad Awda Is’hak Shuhada Awda
- Nasr Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Sharif Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Wa’il Na’im Ahmad Al-Jaghoub
- Wissam Sa’id Musa Al-Abbasi
- Saleh Subhi Dawood Dar Musa
- Muhammad Nasr al-Din Saleh Al-Malah
- Salim Muhammad Salim Hajj
- Thabit Azmi Suleiman Mardawi
- Muhammad Nabil Amir Muhammad Arqan
- Imad Rashid Abdul Rahman Kamil
- Rabi’ Rafeeq Sharif Abu Al-Rub
- Jad Ibrahim Musa Mu’alla
- Ibrahim Muhammad Ahmad Halabiya
- Mahmoud Sadeqi Suleiman Radwan
- Sa’id Abdul Allah Sa’id Al-Banna
- Ramadan Eid Ramdhan Mishahra
- Khalil Muslim Muhammad Barq’ah
- Iyad Yaser Mahmoud Masalmah
- Tha’er Khalid Omar Oweidat
- Layla Ayoub Muhammad Abu Arjaliyah
- Yaser Muhammad Obaid Rabayah
- Jihad Yusuf Isma’il Al-Najjar
- Jasser Afif Muhammad Raddad
- Samir Abdul Fattah Rida Tubasi
- Basel Atef Muhammad Makhlouf
- Zaid Ibrahim Ahmad Beseisi
- Yaser Mahmoud Abu Bakr
- Mahmoud Ali Abdul Radaida
- Nafith Naif Salim Al-Hajj Hussein
- Naji Ibrahim Hassan Basharat
- As’ad Yusuf Hamid Za’arab
- Ra’if Ramez Helmi Al-Farra
- Muhammad Qasim Ahmad Aradah
- Muhammad Muhammad Yusuf Naji
- Munif Muhammad Mahmoud Janadiyah
- Shadi Abdul Samih Suleiman Zaid
- Wa’il Mahmoud Muhammad Ali Qasim
- Fahmi Eid Ramadan Mishahra
- Khalid Sabir Muhammad Abu Amsha
- Salah al-Din Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Jalbush
- Mahmoud Hamad Mahmoud Sharaytah
- Iyad Ziad Abdul Fattah Al-Shurfa
- Ibrahim Isa Khalil Ibrahim
- Iyad Mahmoud Abdul Rahim Nassar
- Ali Hassan Abdul Allah Al-Rajbi
- Muhammad Shakir Alaan Mu’alla
- Ahmad Mustafa Yasin Fanni
- Fahd Abdul Allah Muhammad Sawalhi
- Mahmoud Atiyah Hassan Kleibi
- Nour Muhammad Shukri Jaber
- Iyad Ibrahim Hassan Jaradat
- Yahya Hashim Abdul Fattah Al-Haymuni
- Samer Abdul Samih Ahmad Al-Atresh
- Muhammad Na’im Salman Qawasmeh
- Muhammad Hussein Fayez Jaradat
- Ahmad Dheeb Abdul Rahman Daheedi
- Abdul Rahman Ghassan Mahmoud Washah
- Yusuf Abdul Latif Khidr Mahdawi
- Khalid Dheeb Hassan Abu Hamd
- Ammar Ahed Badi’ Al-Shoubki
- Ibrahim Yusuf Ibrahim Atiyah
- Yusuf Ata Dheab Ahmad Al-Hajj Muhammad Hamdan
- Hussam Adnan Tawfiq Abed
- Sa’id Abdul Samih Suleiman Zaid (Al-Kilani)
- Fayez Abdul Majid Jaber Hamid
- Nasr Muhammad Yusuf Dawood
- Muhammad Hussein Awda Al-Barghouthi
- Muhammad Samir Ahmad Rajbi
- Muhammad Omar Abdul Allah Ahmad Zaid
- Muhammad Sami Abdul Hamid Al-Izza
- Ahmad Saleh Ahmad Musa
- Sa’id Nasr Mahmoud Ar’ar
- Mu’tasim Muhammad Salim Salim
- Ata Sa’id Ya’qub Abu Ramouz
- Hamza Salama Suleiman Abu Sawawin
- Ahmad Badi’ Mustafa Hussein
- Nu’man Ali Ahmad Rayhan
- Muhammad Zuhair Salim Abu Draz
- Mahmoud Kamil Muhammad Ataunah
- Muhammad Abdul Khaleq Ahmad Abu Sa’dah
- Mu’taz Subhi Hassan Za’rour
- Iyad Hosni Al-Sayed Al-Jazzar
- Salah Riyadh Muhammad Magadaba
- Riyadh Abdul Qader Radi’ Arafat
- Ibrahim Salim Musa Abu Sineenah
- Tamer Rajeh Isa Rajbi
- Muhammad Jamil Hassan Kafayah
- Shadi Samir Abdul Wahab Halawah
- Muhammad Mahmoud Tabab
- Mansour Wajih Faris Basharah
- Bakr Muhammad Suleiman Khrouish
- Nasr Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Muhammad Ismail Hassan Al-Hroub
- Ahmad Ibrahim Muhammad Abu Hamda
- Muhammad Yunus Ali Abu Hanke
- Mahmoud Samer Tawfiq Jabarin
- Az-Zayd Musa Dariya
- Abdul Allah Muhammad Ahmad Hadiya
- Tha’er Jamal Muhammad Ta’amrah
- Muhammad Murad Yaser Farhat
- Hussam Muhammad Jum’a Khalil Za’nin
- Omar Ismail Omar Wadi
- Baha’ Dawood Ibrahim Awaisat
- Sa’id Osama Isa Harmas
- Mahdi Iyad Talib Akash
- Musa Fawaz Musa Qubaitat
- Muhammad Zuwid Hamdi Al-Agha
- Abdul Rahman Taha Abdul Rahman Ba’loushah
- Ayman Muhammad Ali Fawajrah
- Muhammad Ahmad Abdul Hamid Al-Tous
- Ra’ed Muhammad Sharif Al-Sa’adi\
- Ali Suleiman Sa’id Al-Sa’adi
- Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk
- Sadeqi Samer Sadeqi Jabr
- Rami Ibrahim Na’im Najjar
- Yunus Ali Abdul Munim Al-Jabari
- Muhammad Isa Mahmoud Al-Barbari
- Anas Qasim Falah Aqra’
- Zaid Ziyad Jamil Amir
- Abdul Aziz Hamad Mahmoud Mar’i
- Ahmad Muhammad Abdullah Hadrj
- Jawad Ziyad Abdul Ma’ti Shalkhti
- A’rafah Abdul Rahman Rashid Abu Sarour
- Tamer Yunus Ahmad Wrideh
- Muqaddad Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Hayeh
- Muhammad Musa Muhammad Badr
- Yaser Yaseen Musa Al-Turwah
- Suhaib Jabbar Ahmad Al-Faqih
- Ashraf Jamal Abdul Qader Ammar
- Muhammad Fahim Mahmoud Shalalda
- Hammam Jamal Badawi
- Masalmah Akram Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Akram Faisal Muhammad Badawi
- Alaa Ra’ed Saleh Zaghir
- Bilal Ahmad Adeeb Abu Zaid
- Mahmoud Sa’id Muhammad Abu Asbah
- Madhat Fawzi Musa Abu Sinimah
- Tarek Abdul Fattah Khalid Yahya
- Tamer Shawkat Ahmad Khdeir
- Ra’ed Muhammad Ibrahim Badwan
- Tahir Khamees Ahmad Matar
- Ibrahim Jamal Mahmoud Hamad
- Abdul Aziz Yahya Hamid Masa’id
- Omar Muhammad Shawkat Mahajneh
- Ali Abdul Nasir Ahmad Mahameed
- Wa’il Hassan Fahed Abu Rida
- Ashraf Munir Hamid Al-Zaghayir
- Yunes Ali Muhammad Masa’ad
- Ahmad Khalid Dawood Hamid
- Omar Saleh Muhammad Faiq Al-Sharif
- Naseem Rashid Abdul Wadud Al-Zaatri
- Abdul Allah Adnan Yahya Al-Sharbati
- Murad Walid Khalid Al-Barghouthi
- Mu’ayed Shukri Abdul Hamid Hamad
- Hashim Nasr Ahmad Al-Sous
- Ammar Sadeqi Suleiman Abu Ghalous
- Sajad Ahmad Sadeqi Abu Ghalous
- Ja’far Fawzi Qasim Abu Hanani
- Bahjat Mahmoud Jamil Shaqirat
- Abdul Ma’iz Dheeb Ibrahim Al-Jaba’
- Louay Sha’ir Shakib
How limited are the choices for Muslim parents. Every third person on the list above is named Muhammad or a variant thereof— Mahmoud, Ahmed, Ahmad, Mohamed. Many of the remaining two-thirds have Abdul, or Khalid, or Yasir as part of their names. Could it be that such a paucity of possibilities tends to depress the sense of individuality? Do the Gedankenexperiment (Thought Experiment): imagine a world in which every non-Muslim male could have only one of three possible names —John, Robert, George.. No more quirky names, or family names, or names made up for the occasion. No Harrison Gray Otis, no William Tecumseh Sherman, no Ulysses S. Grant, no DeCourcy McIntosh, no Ralph Waldo Emerson, no Ebenezer Scrooge, no Cary Grant, no Gregory Peck. Just John Grant, John Peck, John Scrooge, George Emerson, George McIntosh, George Grant, Robert Sherman, Robert Musk, Robert Zuckenberg…You get the picture.
One more thing: am I too thin-skinned, or does that endless list of Arabic names above give you the creeps, too?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Future Israeli policy in wars should be “Take no prisoners”, so that these sorts of deals are not even possible, even if the jihadists want it
Stephen says
They want paradise, we should give it to them, but even one bullet is worth more than those scumbags …
Troybeam says
Releasing more criminals for 4 people, Israel did better when they just dropped the bombs & should continue until all Israeli’s and Americans are returned. No questions No waiting, just drop till they fully collapse and return hostages.
Not a smart move Israel.
Tony says
EVERY MUSLIM committing terroristic acts should be executed after a conviction. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49; 88,111,123;49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Organization of discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam is a Terrorist Criminal Enterprise. The FRUIT of Islam is continual WAR, terrorism, discrimination, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 69:30-32; 3:151.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam as Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Islam promotes a terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in a terrorist war against Non-Muslims and hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
somehistory says
I may be scorned, castigated, criticized and hated for writing this, but it’s supporting terror.
Why does Israel always agree to set so many terrorists free for one or a few hostages?
Why give the terrorists any of their fellow terrorists in return? Shouldn’t the ceasing of bombing, shooting, etc. , plus the *aid* which will keep hamas full, be enough to give up as ransom?
sinwar was released in exchange….and look what he did to show his appreciation…Oct. 7.
His younger brother is now in charge of hamas….and the younger sinwar helped the now-deceased one plan and execute Oct. 7.
sinwar…”the shadow”….has already gathered another large group of terrorists, planning the next massacre, so those 200 are out in time to be in on the next wave of terror.
RightStuff says
How in heaven’s name does this seem intelligent?
Crown says
“ One more thing: am I too thin-skinned, or does that endless list of Arabic names above give you the creeps, too?”
No, you are not too thin-skinned, Mr. Fitzgerald. The fact that those names are Arabic is not really the issue. I suppose there are many Christian Arabs who are decent folks. It’s the fact that most of those names are associated with Islam – that seventh-century version of Naziism.
EVERYTHING about that loathsome death-cult gives me the creeps.
dumbledoresarmy says
A list of fanatical ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslim jihadis who committed murder, or attempted murder, or plotted mass murder, in the pursuit of Total World Domination.. because – and Israel needs to be hammering this fact home, to every non-Muslim world leader – the stated goal of Islam ( bog-standard orthodox historic and present Islam) – is to force every currently-non-Muslim human being on earth to Submit, and for Muslims (and among Muslims, the Arab Muslims) to reign supreme, forever, with their boots stomping down on the necks of anyone who refuses to adore as a ‘prophet’ the thuggish bandit mohammed and live by his bizarre and antihuman diktats.
Muslims – such as these murderous bandits who are now released from jails in Israel, and will most likely immediately start plotting to kill Jews, anywhere – seek to destroy Israel because it is not Muslim; because it was once invaded and conquered by Islam, but (to the white-knuckled RAGE AND FURY of the Mohammedan Mob) has been reclaimed by the descendants of its original non-Muslim owners who now exercise sovereignty there, and practise a non-Muslim faith.
Muslims don’t just intend to destroy Israel.
They intend to reconquer Spain, from which they were expelled by the indigenous infidel Spaniards. They intend to reconquer ALL of India, not just the portions (now known as Pakistan and Bangladesh) that they got as a result of Partition. From the 8th century to the 18th Muslims invaded and pillaged India and ruled with hideous cruelty over its non-Muslim indigenous peoples, many scores of millions of whom, they butchered during their invasions and imperial occupation of that part of the world.
And Erdogan of Muslim Turkey is making it plain he would very much like to reconquer and trample into the dirt the free non-Muslim states – Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia – that vicious Ottoman Muslims invaded, occupied and oppressed, for centuries. The non-Muslim Greeks fought like lions and threw off the Muslim yoke; Erdogan lusts to crush them under that iron yoke once again.
Islam: a supremacist death cult bent on Total World Domination. A religion of blood and war, that revels in rape, torture and pillage, and teaches its adherents to hate and deceive and kill non-Muslims qua non-Muslims.
THAT’S what Israel is up against.
abu taleb says
Islam says that a muslim is worth 2x of a Jew, and a male is worth 2x of a female. So, a male muslim is worth 4x of a Jew female.
But now, 4 Jew females is worth of 200 Hamas terrorists, probably all of them are muslim males. Islamists must be mad for making the Hamas terrorists worth so low only 1/50 of a Jew female.
If the Jews are apes and pigs, then what are the Hamas terrorists? Some worthless cockriaches people can step on without any guilt?
Funny, muslims considers these worthless beings as heroes.
skeptiker says
Ein schlechtes Geschäft für Israel. Die Geiseln konnten leider militärisch nicht befreit werden also musste ein Deal her, um das Leben der Geiseln zu retten.
Ich hoffe, dass die Terroristen und ihre Unterstützer noch einen hohen Preis dafür zahlen werden. Nicht als Märtyrer gen Himmel zu fahren sondern bis ans Ende ihrer Tage unehrenhaft in einer Gefängniszelle ihr Dasein fristen.
dumbledoresarmy says
Every well-meaning westerner who weeps for the children of Gaza needs to be shown the screen-grab that accompanies this article. There are two little kids in that image: they would both be no more than ten years old. But they are already being trained to be killers. They are the Mohammedjugend of Gaza…
One of the Israeli hostages – one of those who were rescued by the IDF in a brilliant raid, in February 2024 – has described what it was like to be seized and dragged into Gaza.
He described the scenes in the kibbutz as he was dragged out of his safe room… he saw Gazan Arab women and teenagers – i.e. ‘children’ – swarming into the wrecked kibbutz to loot and pillage, right alongside the male jihadis.
He also describes his kidnappers as shouting ‘Allahu akbar’. NOT ‘free palestine’. NOT ‘free Gaza.’ NO.. they screeched ‘allahu-akbar’, the war-cry of jihad for 1400 years, the very same war-cry used by Muslim bandits when they attack Christian villages in Africa.
And he recalls that when he and others with him were being taken into Khan Yunis, they were surrounded by hundreds of teenagers waving blades – he says ‘shears’ – who were looking like they intended to slice or cut the Jewish prisoners to pieces. But .. and this would ONLY be because the Hamasniks viewed their prisoners as potential bargaining chips … the Hamas fired shots in the air, and drove quickly through the crowd. They might just as easily, had they chosen, thrown their prisoners to that mob of murderous teens, to be hacked to pieces…
As far as I am concerned, given the nature of Islam, and especially what Hamas has been up to , in Gaza, the past 30 years and more, the ONLY innocent children in Gaza are the pre-verbal infants… because the instant they can walk and talk they are taught to kill, and taught to hate, hate, HATE the infidel (Jewish or otherwise) with a murderous hatred.
dumbledoresarmy says
Correction to the above. I should have read the caption to the picture: The image is not of Muslim jihadis of Hamas in GAZA. The image is of.. Muslim jihadis of FATAH, in Nablus!! (It could just as easily have been an image of Muslim jihadis of Hamas in Gaza; just go to MEMRI and start searching, you’ll find plenty of horrifying video clips of small kids in green hamas headbands waving weapons).
But the main point stands: the local ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslims, whether they occupy large chunks of Judea and Samaria, or whether they live in Gaza, teach their young children – even very small children! – to hate and to kill; they pickle them in a vicious, murderous hatred. Those children are the ‘Mohammedjugend’ whether they live in Gaza, or elsewhere.
So those in the west – including many clergypeople – who sentimentalise over ‘poor little palestinian children’ who are being slaughtered by the eeevil Jooooz of Israel…. are choosing to wilfully ignore the horrifying reality.. that these ‘palestinian’ (sic) children are essentially child soldiers.
James Lincoln says
I counted 66 of those “Palestinian” terrorists who are actually named “muhammad”.
33%.
bagsgroove says
Is that little muslim bastard kid holding a gun ? They start young those enemies of mankind. They won’t last long. Those who live by the gun, die by the gun !