October 12th, 2025 - 05:51 GMT
ALBAWABA - The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement in Gaza, is keeping the arrangements for handing over the Israeli hostages very secret, and it didn't even tell Hamas leaders the details on how it will happen and where. Prominent Hamas leader and political bureau member Osama Hamdan told the media on Saturday that "fighters from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades have not informed the Hamas leadership ...
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![Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting on December 8, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/454261147.jpg?itok=dTd6h6ZT "Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting on December 8, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. [Getty Images]")
![Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the former South African President Nelson Mandela pose at Mandela's house inJohannesburg 01 April 2006.Abbas said he considered Mandela as the father of all liberation movements. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/150343449.jpg?itok=xp8kFJIY "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the former South African President Nelson Mandela pose at Mandela's house inJohannesburg 01 April 2006.Abbas said he considered Mandela as the father of all liberation movements. [Getty Images]")
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![Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on September 18, 2013 for a brief opening for special cases after the Egyptian authorities closed the crossing 'indefinitely' the day before for security reasons. [Mohammad Abed/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/180934525.jpg?itok=GgbrICYN "Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on September 18, 2013 for a brief opening for special cases after the Egyptian authorities closed the crossing 'indefinitely' the day before for security reasons. [Mohammad Abed/AFP]")
![A Palestinian child raises up a paper ship reading 'No siege' during a rally to protest against the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip on November 30, 2013 at Gaza City harbour. [Mahmud Hams/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/452597519.jpg?itok=2adq-tTN "A Palestinian child raises up a paper ship reading 'No siege' during a rally to protest against the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip on November 30, 2013 at Gaza City harbour. [Mahmud Hams/AFP]")
