As Israel, Hamas and international mediators meet today, Monday in Egypt, four high-profile Palestinian prisoners, Marouan Bargouti, Ahmad Saadat, Ibrahim Hammad and Abas al-Said, were expected to be

So who are these high -profile prisoners that Hamas wants to be liberated at all costs:

Marouan Bargouti: Fatah leader – convicted of 5 murders

Bargouti, Senior and former head of the Tanzim militia on the West Bank, he was one of the leaders of the second Infanant. He was arrested in Ramamala during the “Defense Shield” operation in April 2002 and was later sentenced by an Israeli political court for five charges of homicide and other offenses. It serves five times life imprisonment, plus additional years.

In April-May 2017, while led by a major hunger strike, the Israeli prison service posted a video that, he said, showed Barguti secretly eating in his cell, a video that his supporters described.

Bargouti remains one of the most popular Palestinian politicians and his name has been heard many times in the negotiations as a person that Hamas wants to be liberated.

Ahmad Saadat: PFLP leader is linked to Zevi’s murder

Saadat became Secretary General of the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in October 2001, after Israeli defense forces (IDF) killed his predecessor, Abu Ali Mustafa. Israel considers him responsible for the planning of the murder of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zevi in ​​2001. After years of detention by the Palestinian Authority in Jericho, under the monitoring of British and American prisoners, the observers retired and IDF was arrested in March 2006. In 2008, an Israeli military court He sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

Ibrahim Hammd: Hamas Business Heads on West Bank

Hamad served as a senior Commander of Hamas’s Iszadin al-Casham Brigades on the West Bank during the second Intifada and was arrested in Ramala in May 2006. He was convicted of the orchestration of a series of large bomb attacks, Including the bomb attack on the Café Moment in Jerusalem (11 dead), the bomb attack on the Jewish University cafeteria (9 dead) and other attacks that have resulted in many citizens being killed. Were imposed on him 54 times life imprisonment, for 46 murders.

Abbas al-Sacent: Brainstorm of slaughter at Park Hotel in 2002

Sayed, a senior Hamas executive from Tulkarm, helped design the suicide bomb attack at Easter night at the Nettian Park Hotel in March 2002, in which killed 30 people and injured about 160. Was sentenced to Tel Aviv Regional Court in 35 times life in life.

Israel has repeatedly excluded from previous exchanges of prisoners.