After Hamas announced the names of the hostages scheduled to be released at the end of the first flight of the Gaza agreement, Hisham al-Sayed's name emerged among the six names, and many wondered if there was an Arab name among the names.

A source in Al-Qassam revealed that "the Israeli prisoner Hisham Al-Sayed will be handed over in Gaza City without ceremony, out of respect for the Palestinians inside."

According to the i24 News website, Hamas detained Hisham Shaaban al-Sayed in April 2015, as he independently crossed the border with the Gaza Strip through the orchards of Kibbutz Erez.

Hisham Al-Sayed (36 years old), an Arab citizen born in the Negev, is reported by his family to suffer from schizophrenia.

At first, he was declared missing and his family did not know what happened to him, until surveillance cameras on the separation fence showed him sneaking into the Gaza Strip.

During 2022, Hamas announced the deterioration of Hisham al-Sayed's health, and published a video documenting his condition.

His family did not try to exert public pressure over the past years to release him. Over the past ten years, all efforts to conclude a deal to release him in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s prisons failed, and his name was included under the title of forgotten prisoners in the Gaza Strip.

Press reports said that Mr. Sayed is an Arab of 1948 who lives in Israel and volunteered in the Israeli army in 2008.