{"id":8491,"date":"2025-10-08T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hamas-says-it-handed-over-list-of-israelis-and-palestinians-for-swap-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:24:25","slug":"hamas-says-it-handed-over-list-of-israelis-and-palestinians-for-swap-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hamas-says-it-handed-over-list-of-israelis-and-palestinians-for-swap-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas says it handed over list of Israelis and Palestinians for swap deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-bullets-style\">\n<ul>\n<li>Hamas hands over list of names for Gaza swap deal<\/li>\n<li>Hamas says it is optimistic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Oct 8 &mdash; Hamas said today it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s plan to end the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations are focused on the mechanisms to halt the conflict, withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the swap deal, the Palestinian militant group added.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the implementation of the first phase of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s 20-point initiative has not been agreed so far during talks in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, said a Palestinian source close to the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump expressed optimism about progress toward a deal yesterday, the second anniversary of Hamas&rsquo; attack on Israel that triggered Israel&rsquo;s assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>A US team including special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump&rsquo;s son-in-law who served as Middle East envoy during Trump&rsquo;s first term, will take part in the talks over a plan that has come closest to silencing the guns.<\/p>\n<p>But officials on all sides urged caution over the prospects for a rapid agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer &mdash; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&rsquo;s close confidant &mdash; was due to join the talks on Wednesday afternoon, according to an Israeli official.<\/p>\n<p>Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, a key mediator, and Turkish spymaster Ibrahim Kalin, will also take part in the ceasefire negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas wants a permanent, comprehensive ceasefire, a complete pullout of Israeli forces and the immediate start of a comprehensive reconstruction process under the supervision of a Palestinian &ldquo;national technocratic body&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Israel, for its part, wants Hamas to disarm, which the group rejects.<\/p>\n<p>US officials suggest they want to initially focus talks on a halt to the fighting and the logistics of how the Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian detainees in Israel would be freed.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a ceasefire, Israel has pressed on with its offensive in Gaza, increasing its international isolation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Global outrage has mounted against Israel&rsquo;s assault, which has internally displaced nearly Gaza&rsquo;s entire population and set off a starvation crisis. Multiple rights experts, scholars and a UN inquiry say it amounts to genocide. Israel calls its actions self-defence after the 2023 Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gaza authorities, some 67,000 people have been killed in Israel&rsquo;s assault. It followed the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, when 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken to Gaza as hostages, according to Israel&rsquo;s tallies. &mdash; Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Hamas says it handed over list of Israelis and Palestinians for swap deal<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas hands over list of names for Gaza swap deal Hamas says it is optimistic SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Oct 8 &mdash; Hamas said today it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on US&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hamas-says-it-handed-over-list-of-israelis-and-palestinians-for-swap-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hamas says it handed over list of Israelis and Palestinians for swap deal&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}