Is it possible to delete a bunch of rows based on some column value using Query interface or the named query in the mapping xml ?

For ex, if we write the following query in xml :

<query name="delete.rptExpressions.for.particular.expressionID">
delete from RptExpression as rptExpression
where rptExpression.expressionID = ?
</query>

and the following code in java :
Query query = HibernateUtil.currentSession().getNamedQuery("delete.rptExpressions.for.particular.expressionID");
query.setInteger(0, expressionID);
query.list();


Will execution of the above code do delete for us ?

session.delete()

But if you use session.delete, you will have to hardcode the query for deletion over here only, whereas I want to write the query in mapping xml file and then use that as a named query in java.
Is there any way to do that ?