All but four high-profile prisoners are on their way to freedom

As part of a prisoner release deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, 2,000 Palestinian prisoners will be freed from Israeli jails, some of whom Israel describes as “bloodstained.”

There had been hopes that senior prisoners such as Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat would be released, but Israel refused.

These are some of the prisoners who will be released under the deal with Hamas — some of them serving long sentences — who had been freed in previous deals and re-arrested during the war on the Gaza Strip.

According to Israeli reports, the names of the four senior prisoners demanded by Hamas — Marwan Barghouti, Ahmad Saadat, Abbas al-Sayyid and Hassan Salameh — were removed from the list of those to be released under the deal.

The names of Hakim Awad, who is serving five life sentences, and the well-known prisoner Mahmoud Attaullah were also removed.

The list includes Palestinian policeman Raed al-Sheikh, among those accused in the killing of two soldiers in Ramallah in 2000; he is serving two life sentences.

Also on the list is Maher Abu Sarour, who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing a settler in Ramallah in July 2001.

Among those to be released is Baher Badr, sentenced to 11 life terms for his responsibility for the Tzrifin suicide bombing in 2004.

Also included are Ibrahim Alqam, Jihad al-Roum and Ahmad Saada, who was responsible for the No. 20 bus attack in Jerusalem in 2002.

Ayham Kammamji, arrested in 2006, is serving two life sentences for his role in an attack that abducted and killed a settler in Ramallah.

Riyad al-Amour, a senior leader in Fatah’s Tanzim, was convicted of responsibility for the killing of nine Israelis.

Also named are Nabil Abu Khdeir and Iyad Abu al-Rub, the commander of Islamic Jihad’s military wing in the Jenin area.

Among those to be released is Jaafar Zaatari, a senior Hamas activist who led several bombing operations.

Prisoner Mohammad Imran, one of the partners in the junction attack in Hebron that killed 12 settlers, will be released and will not be deported abroad.

Also to be released are Ahmad Mahmoud Ali Ka’abneh, Taleb Makhammara, and Nader Abu Turki, who was among the prisoners freed in the Shalit deal.