Freeing monsters: NYC native bracing to see terrorist who killed his brother be released to Hamas

The family of a Queens man killed by a Palestinian teen in the West Bank is bracing to see the thug walk free as part of Saturday’s hostage-prisoner exchange — fearing further attacks as once-locked away “monsters” are released.Hillcrest-raised Israel advocate Ari Fuld was stabbed to death in 2018 by 17-year-old Khalil Jabarin — and Fuld’s younger brother Hillel insisted his sibling would have been staunchly opposed to any prisoner release.Ari, 45, was against hostage exchange deals, particularly in 2011, when one Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for five years was exchanged for 1,027 convicted prisoners, including Oct.7 mastermind Yahyah Sinwar.He would be “100 percent against this deal,” Fuld said.

Back then, “Everyone else said, ‘We gotta do the deal.’ But Ari said, ‘No, we don’t gotta do it.’”His older brother “would have warned us what is to come from releasing those monsters,” he added. “The fear is you’ll have another Sinwar being released, another mass terror attack, like they tried to do last night, at the hands of someone being released,” Fuld, noting the attempted bombings on multiple Israeli buses Thursday, told The Post.The younger Fuld called Jabarin’s release “painful,” but seemed resigned to it.“I believe we have to do this now to bring our people back,” Fuld told The Post Friday, a day before Jabarin was slated to be among the 602 prisoners to be sprung in exchange for six Israeli hostages.Of those being released Saturday, 50 are serving life sentences.

All told, 1,900 Palestinian prisoners are due to be returned for 33 Israelis held by Hamas in the first phase of the cease-fire’s with Israel. More than 270 of the freed prisoners were serving life sentences.“The personal price that we’re paying, as difficult as it is, doesn’t really change our opinion.This deal is both horrible and beautiful at the same time,” said Fuld by phone from his home in Israel, conceding he held out ho...