Friday, November 14, 2025 -In October, under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Hamas, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. While most were returned to Gaza, 250 of them were longtime inmates convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis, and 154 of those were exiled to Cairo, never to return to their homes in the West Bank or Gaza.
Israeli security analysts defend the deportations as a tactical move to reduce the risk of released prisoners returning to militant activity. By sending them far away, they argue, it limits their ability to re-engage with militant networks in their home territories.
But critics point to past prisoner swaps as a warning: some released individuals have rejoined or led militant groups after being deported.
From the Palestinian side, many view the exile as forced displacement. Relatives of the deported say they were denied the chance to reunite, and some argue the choice offered to prisoners — remain jailed or leave forever — amounts to coercion.
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