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 ...
![Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal and acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas [Ma'an]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/344394_Palerstine-Hamas.jpg?itok=O3p88KFA "Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal and acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas [Ma'an]")
![Palestinian children look at bungalows built by Israeli settlers on seized land, near the West Bank city of Birzeit on December 3, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/84aca20fb22df5dbe31feb08c676b4637720eb77.jpg?itok=pmUTQDk6 "Palestinian children look at bungalows built by Israeli settlers on seized land, near the West Bank city of Birzeit on December 3, 2013. [AFP]")
![[Ma'an]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/129773_345x230.jpg?itok=rnP5tTke "[Ma'an]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud talk before a meeting at the King's desert encampment on January 5, 2014 [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281832.jpg?itok=UR-m4xx7 "US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud talk before a meeting at the King's desert encampment on January 5, 2014 [AFP]")
![People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460342937.jpg?itok=noAhRsjZ "People carry one of the two bodies during the funeral of Malak Zahwa and her step-mother Iman Hijazi, who both died in a car bomb that targeted a Beirut's suburb the day before on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]")
![A police car passes the Palestine embassy which stands next to the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 2, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460106405.jpg?itok=bKk2kdNB "A police car passes the Palestine embassy which stands next to the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 2, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]")
![Firefighters work outside the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 1, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459976971.jpg?itok=4MUzuDap "Firefighters work outside the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 1, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]")
![Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459816257.jpg?itok=9tTxXeFQ "Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]")
