Al Qassam website\ Agencies - The mother of Fatima al-Zag, a Palestinian female imprisoned in a Zionist jail, burst with joyful ululation as soon as she heard Hamas movement's announcement that her daughter will be one of 20 females prisoners that will be released soon.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told a news conference in Gaza on Wednesday that a deal has been reached with the Zionist entity through the Egyptian and German mediators that 20 female prisoners will be released from Zionist jails for information about the Zionist soldier in Gaza.

Happiness and joy dominated al-Zag's house in the neighborhood of Sheja'eya in eastern Gaza City after hearing the pleasant news. According to Abu Zuhri, al-Zaq is the only female prisoner from Gaza that will be released, where the 19 other female prisoners are from the West Bank.

"I'm really so happy that Fatima will be released, I will finally see her soon," said Fatima's husband Mohamed al-Zag. "We were just watching television as usual and I couldn't believe my ears when I heard my wife's name that she will be one of the 20 women to be released."

Fatima al-Zag, better known as Om Mahmoud, 40 years old, mother of four children, was kidnapped by Zionist security forces at Erez crossing between Gaza Strip and the occupied in May 2007. She had been pregnant at that time and she gave birth to her fourth baby boy Youssef in a Zionist hospital in January, this year.

Youssef stayed with her custody as she was in prison, where he became the youngest prisoner in the world. Mohamed al-Zag said his wife Fatima was kidnapped as she was coming back with her nephew who had a surgery at a Zionist hospital in 2007.

"I missed my youngest son that I have never seen before," said Mohamed al-Zag, as Fatima's mother was holding and kissing a picture of her daughter. "Thanks to Allah [God] that I will finally hold my son, I had lost hope that I could see him and my wife one day. I believe that movement will be so exiting."

According to Gaza-based human rights groups, the Zionist entity is holding in its jails 60 female prisoners. One of Hamas conditions to hand the Zionist entity information about Shalit is to free a number of prisoners, said Abu Zuhri, adding that "this is a first step towards freeing all our prisoners from the occupation's jails."

Abu Mujahid, spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a militant group, which is one of Shalit's captors, said that the deal is to give the zionist entity a one-minute video tape showing the soldier alive for releasing 20 female prisoners from its jails.

"Since the beginning of the closure, we were not able to leave the Gaza Strip to visit Fatima in her jail, so our contacts were only through letters we exchanged through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)," said al-Zag, as he received neighbors who came to say congratulations.

Hamas and other captors demanded the release of around 1,000 prisoners, including 450 prisoners, who spend long term sentences in Zionist jails. Hamas also demanded to release women, children and sick prisoners.

"Even if Fatima and the other 19 women are released, our happiness would be incomplete because we want to see all male and female prisoners are freed and all Zionist prisoners will be closed," said Fatima's mother. "We hope that the prisoners exchange deal will be finalized soon."

Abu Zuhri said that Gaza Hamas leaders handed the office of the ICRC in Gaza city a list of the 20 female prisoners that the Zionist entity will free soon, adding that "this is a great achievement that all the Palestinians should be proud of, and the list including prisoners from all factions without any discrimination."

The Zionist entity is still holding in its jails around 11,000 Palestinians, they were arrested after the Palestinians signed Oslo agreement with the Zionist entity in 1994. But most of them were kidnapped after the Palestinian Intifada of al-Aqsa, or Uprising, erupted against the Zionist entity in late September 2000.