Moussa Doudine, a member of Hamas’ political bureau and head of the prisoners, martyrs and wounded dossier, has told Al-Monitor that Hamas will demand guarantees from Israel via a third party to force it to respect the terms of any future prisoner exchange and deny it the opportunity to renege any agreed upon obligations. Doudine emphasized that the movement will not provide information “for free” to Israel, but did not elaborate on what the price might be.
Doudine, 42, spent 18 years in Israeli prisons, from 1993 to 2011, on charges of carrying out a number of armed operations in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, including killing and wounding a number of Israeli soldiers as well as organizing armed cells. Israel sentenced him to life in prison, where he spent seven non-consecutive years in solitary confinement. He was released in the 2011 prisoner exchange, after which Israel exiled him to Qatar, claiming he might become involved in armed operations against Israel if allowed to remain in his hometown of Hebron.
