Israel says 8 of 33 on Hamas' list of prisoners to be released are already dead | News about the conflict between Israel and Palestine

Israel says the next prisoner release will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.

Israel says the Hamas list shows that eight of the 33 captives will be released in the first phase of Gaza ceasefire agreement are dead.

Government spokesman David Menser told reporters on Monday that Hamas had said the other 25 were alive. Last night, Israel said it had received a list of information on the status of Hamas prisoners.

“Families have been informed of the situation of their relatives,” Menser said, without releasing the names of the dead.

Israel said the next prisoner release would take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.

Approximately 90 prisoners are still being held. Before the announcement, Israel believed at least 35 of them were dead.

A cease-fire agreement in the Israel-Hamas conflict, announced earlier in January after months of fruitless negotiations, came into effect on January 19, ending more than 15 months of devastating war in Gaza sparked by Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023 . .

Under the first phase of the agreement, 33 prisoners held in Gaza are to be released in exchange for more than 1,900 Palestinians held by Israel.

Seven Israeli women were released since the beginning of the ceasefire, as well as 290 Palestinian prisoners.

Two Israeli women, Arbel Yehud and Agam Berger, are due to be released on Thursday along with a third unidentified captive following talks between Hamas and Israel.

Their impending release was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday night as part of a truce deal with Hamas.

According to Israel, Arbel Yehud, as a woman and a civilian, was due to be released last Saturday in the second prisoner exchange of the ceasefire agreement.

When she failed to appear, the Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the agreement and in retaliation prevented displaced Palestinians from returning to northern Gaza.

Hamas accused Israel of violating the truce and said it had informed mediators that Yehud was alive and had given guarantees for her release.

On Monday, after Hamas promised to release Yehud and other captives this week, the blockade was lifted.

As a result, hundreds of thousands displaced Palestinians in Gaza began traveling back to destroyed homes in the northern Gaza Strip later Monday for the first time since the start of the devastating war.

The United Nations reported that more than 200,000 people were seen moving north into Gaza on Monday morning alone.

According to UN figures, about two-thirds of all buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or severely damaged during the conflict, and an estimated 90 percent of Gaza's 2.1 million residents have been displaced.

The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said on Monday that the death toll from Israel's war on Gaza had reached 47,317, with the number rising despite a ceasefire as more bodies were found under the rubble.

The ministry said hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received 11 bodies in the past 24 hours – nine bodies removed since the ceasefire and two new deaths. It is not clear how the new deaths occurred.

The ministry said Israeli attacks also wounded at least 111,494 people.

At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken prisoner.