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 ...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech attended by French President Francois Hollande and Israel's President Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv on November 19, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450526405.jpg?itok=LPh3mn9S "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech attended by French President Francois Hollande and Israel's President Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv on November 19, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and French President Francois Hollande hold a joint press conference on November 18, 2013 in Ramallah, West Bank. [Thaer Ghanaim/GPO via Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450376705.jpg?itok=wGvI6yVN "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and French President Francois Hollande hold a joint press conference on November 18, 2013 in Ramallah, West Bank. [Thaer Ghanaim/GPO via Getty Images]")
![Former US President Bill Clinton , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) shake hands before a meeting in the residence of the US ambassador to Norway, 02 November 1999. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/156970601.jpg?itok=qMf4kH5s "Former US President Bill Clinton , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) shake hands before a meeting in the residence of the US ambassador to Norway, 02 November 1999. [Getty Images]")
![Israeli riot police walk at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators following Friday prayers on March 8, 2013. [Ahmad Gharbali/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/163350459.jpg?itok=Q6PowcFJ "Israeli riot police walk at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators following Friday prayers on March 8, 2013. [Ahmad Gharbali/Getty Images]")
![Israeli security guard peering through a hole of Israel's separation barrier by Palestinian youth in the Abu Dis neighrbood, bordering Jerusalem on July 9, 2013. [Abbas Momani/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/173174994.jpg?itok=hsdbvPy2 "Israeli security guard peering through a hole of Israel's separation barrier by Palestinian youth in the Abu Dis neighrbood, bordering Jerusalem on July 9, 2013. [Abbas Momani/Getty Images]")
![Members of Hamas' security forces stand guard in front of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2013. [Said Khatib/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/180692559.jpg?itok=XVbku9kT "Members of Hamas' security forces stand guard in front of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2013. [Said Khatib/Getty Images]")
![Signs at the seats where Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian representative Saeb Erekat were to sit in a meeting with the Middle East Quartet during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 27, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York. [Stan Honda/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/182028604.jpg?itok=27fXLe1U "Signs at the seats where Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian representative Saeb Erekat were to sit in a meeting with the Middle East Quartet during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 27, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York. [Stan Honda/Getty Images]")
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![An Israeli F-16 warplane [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/fff.jpg?itok=7fLWn0aS "An Israeli F-16 warplane [presstv.ir]")
![A Palestinian girl takes a photo of masked militants of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, using her mobile phone as they parade in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2013, during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of Israel's Operation 'Pillar of Defence'. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/187969753.jpg?itok=7kGoKqP5 "A Palestinian girl takes a photo of masked militants of Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, using her mobile phone as they parade in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2013, during an anti-Israel march as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of Israel's Operation 'Pillar of Defence'. [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images]")
