(Oct. 26, 2025 / JNS) Some of the Palestinian terrorists whose sentences were commuted by Israel as part of the U.S.-brokered agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip stayed at Egypt’s Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel following their release, Israeli media reported on Saturday.

In a call with Kan News, the Cairo hotel initially denied that the former Palestinian prisoners were among its guests, claiming: “We only have customers here. I don’t check what each customer’s intentions are.”

However, when asked by the Israeli broadcaster if Mahmoud Issa, who founded the special kidnapping unit of Hamas’s military wing, was staying at the hotel, the representative answered in the affirmative.