The White House's 2025 20-point proposal called for Israel to release roughly 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences and about 1,700 Gaza residents detained since the war began in exchange for returning hostages.
October 06, 2025
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policy
Proposed prisoner-for-hostage exchange terms
A 2025 U.S. peace plan linked a hostage release to a reciprocal exchange involving Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
October 05, 2025
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policy
The proposed exchange mechanism connecting hostages and prisoners was a central element of the plan.
The 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange released Palestinian prisoners, and many individuals released in that exchange later participated in the October 7, 2023 attacks.
October 07, 2023
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temporal
Historical example linking a major prisoner-exchange (2011) to participants in a later large-scale attack (October 7, 2023).