On the 12th day of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, the third batch of the prisoner exchange deal will be implemented on Thursday, according to which the Palestinian resistance factions will release three Israeli prisoners and five Thai workers, in exchange for Israel releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners.

At the same time, thousands of displaced Palestinians continue to flow back to the central and northern Gaza Strip via Rashid Street.

The spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, announced the release of the Israeli prisoners Arbel Yehud (29 years old), Agam Berger (20 years old), and Gadi Moshe Moses (80 years old), as part of the “Flood of the Free” deal.

In turn, Palestinian institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs said that the third batch of the first phase of the exchange deal includes 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 32 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, 48 prisoners with high sentences, in addition to 30 cub prisoners.

This exceptional batch was approved under Israel's pretext of not releasing the Israeli prisoner Yehud in the previous batch, in an attempt to obstruct the return of displaced Palestinians to the northern Gaza Strip.

With the implementation of the third batch of the exchange deal, 82 Israelis will remain in captivity with the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, while the concerned parties continue negotiations to complete the implementation of the agreement in its three stages.

Another exchange is scheduled to take place on the specified date, next Saturday, under the ceasefire agreement reached by Qatari-Egyptian-American mediation to end the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said three living men held by Hamas were due to be released in a fourth round of exchange scheduled for Saturday. Families will be notified of the names of those to be released on Friday.