ISRAELIS are counting the cost of having the 20 hostages home as buses carrying nearly 2,000 freed Palestinians — including murderers and terrorists — arrived in Gaza.
Around 250 serious offenders serving life sentences in Israel were being welcomed back to Palestinian communities, along with 1,750 detainees held in Gaza.
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And many of the notorious names reported to be on the list of released Palestinians sparked alarm — amid fears they would launch a new wave of terror and crime.
Israelis point to Yahya Sinwar as an example of what might now follow.
He honed his hatred behind bars before being freed in a similar swap deal in 2011.
He then rose through Hamas’s ranks and became its brutal leader, eventually masterminding the terror group’s October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel.
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He was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza last year.
Danger men being freed yesterday included Baher Badar, who plotted a 2004 terror attack which killed 11 Israelis, and Eiad Abu-Al-Rub, the head of The Islamic Jihad in Jenin.
Al-Rub planned a string of terror attacks — among them one in Israeli city Hadera, in which six people were murdered.
Faras Ganam was also reported to have walked free despite being convicted of at least five terror attacks, and killing four Israelis.
And Jihad Rom was on the list of those let out — despite his kidnapping of 17-year-old Jerusalem boy Yuri Gushchin, who was later murdered.
Another reported to be free was Nabil Abu Hadir, who murdered his own sister after suspecting she was an Israeli agent.
Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Qanba, who murdered Rabbi Raziel Shevach in a 2018 terror attack, was also released — but his victim’s widow has backed the move.
Yael Shevach said she’d make the sacrifice “with love” if it was the price of hostages returning.
Also freed was Iyad Fatafta, one of two men convicted of murder for stabbing to death American tourist Kristine Luken, who was hiking with a friend, in 2010.
Ahmed Mahmed Jameel Shahada, who had been serving a life sentence since 1989 after murdering Oren Bahrami, 13, was also released yesterday.
The fiend lured the teen to a monastery before raping him and beating him to death in Jaffa.
Oren’s mother Kati Bahrami, 66, said no one from Israel’s government had informed her that her son’s murderer would be released.
She only learnt of it after being contacted by an Israeli newspaper.
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