Israel is to release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners during the 42nd term of the ceasefire, according to the agreement, starting at least 90 on Sunday in exchange for three Israeli prisoners captured by Hamas in Gaza.

Israel says most of the prisoners are terrorists and criminals. Many Palestinians view the arrested soldiers as freedom fighters against Israeli rule, and say some were imprisoned by the unjust Israeli military.

Here are the most prominent Palestinian prisoners to be freed by ceasing hostilities, according to Israel’s Ministry of Justice.

Zakaria Zubeidi

Over the past two decades, Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, has been a soldier, theater director, and escaped prisoner whose escape shocked Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Mr. Zubeidi became known as a terrorist leader during the Second Intifada, or uprising, in the early 2000s, when Palestinian forces carried out deadly attacks on Israel, including suicide bombings targeting civilian streets.

Israel responded by repopulating major Palestinian cities amid ongoing street battles. Some of the fiercest fighting took place in the Palestinian city of Jenin, home of the Zubeidis. He later emerged as a senior commander in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed militia loosely affiliated with the Fatah party, the main Palestinian political group in the West Bank.

After the riots, Zubeidi worked at a actors within the hardscrabble Jenin refugees. In 2019, Israel arrested him again on the charge of returning to the army.

Two years later, Zubeidi and five other Palestinian prisoners did a jailbreak crawling about 32 yards through an underground tunnel outside one of Israel’s highest security prisons. Although he was later recaptured, the security breach shocked Israel and delighted the Palestinians.

An Israeli airstrike killed Zubeidi’s son, Mohammad, in September. An Israeli soldier called the son a “big terrorist” and said he was involved in shooting Israeli soldiers.

Wissam Abbasi, Mohammad Odeh and Wael Qassim

Wissam Abbasi, 48, Mohammad Odeh, 52, and Wael Qassim, 54, were arrested in 2002 on charges of carrying out Hamas attacks against Israel during the Second Intifada. According to Israel’s Ministry of Justice, the three men were sentenced to life in prison for murder and several other crimes.

According to today’s Israeli media reports, the men were among several people arrested he is participating in a Hamas cell in Jerusalem which led to a series of bombings that killed more than 30 Israelis in civilian areas.

The attacks included the deadly Hamas bombing of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem nine peopleincluding four US citizens, according to Israeli officials.

Mr. Odeh, who worked as a painter at the university, planted the bomb in the cafeteria and covered it with a newspaper. The New York Times said at the timeciting Israeli officials. After he left, he detonated the bomb with a cellphone, officials said.

Under the ceasefire agreement, the men will not be allowed to return to Jerusalem, according to Israel’s justice ministry. He will be required to live in exile, although it is not known where he will be allowed to go.