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Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas, said Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Offer Kalderon will be released on Saturday.
A vision of a banner that represents Keith Siegel, who is a double American citizen seized during the October 7 attack to Israel and brought to Gaza as a hostage, amid the continuous conflict between Israel and Hamas, he sees other images of Hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel. . (Image: Reuters)
The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Friday that he would free the father from the younger hostages seized in his October 7, 2023 attack against Israel and two others, including a double American citizen in the next exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Offer Kalderon will be delivered on Saturday, said Hamas Armed Wing spokesman, Abu Obeida, in a position on his Telegram channel.
Yarden Bibas is the father of baby Kfir, only nine months old when he was kidnapped, and Ariel, who was four years old at the time of cross -border attack.
There was no news about the fate of Kfir and Ariel, or about his mother Shiri, whom he was taken at the same time. Hamas said at the end of 2023 that they had been killed by Israeli bombing, in the first months of Gaza’s War.
The video of his capture began to circulate shortly after they were seized. He showed a terrified Shiri grabbing his little children in a blanket while they were in captivity surrounded by militant assailants.
The father, Yarden, 34 at the time of the attack, was also kidnapped and a clip circulated that he showed him by bleeding from a head injury suffered hammer blows.
The Israeli, the American Keith Siegel, who was taken hostage from his wife Aviva, was seen in a video published by Hamas last year. His wife was released in the first exchange of hostages by prisoners in November 2023.
The two children of Offer Kalderon Erez and Sahar, kidnapped next to him, were also released in the first exchange.
On Thursday, Hamas released three Israeli hostages and five Thai in Gaza, while Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process with anger at the crowds swarms that wrap one of the hostage delivery points.
Under the high the fire agreement that stopped more than 15 months of struggle, 33 hostages in the hands of Palestinian militants in Gaza must be released in the first six weeks of the truce in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, many of whom have complied Perpetual perpetual chain chains. Israel.
Fifteen hostages, including five Thai workers taken on October 7, and so far 400 prisoners have been exchanged. Ninety Palestinian prisoners, including nine sentences to life imprisonment and 81 long -term convictions, will be changed to the three Israeli on Saturday, said the prison information office of Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has generated criticism in Israel for not having sealed a hostage agreement before the war after the security failure that allowed militants led by Hamas, breaking into the border and storm close to Israeli communities.
But there has also been opposition to the current agreement, that some critics in Israel have said that it leaves the fate of most hostages in the balance and Hamas is still standing as the dominant entity of Gaza.
Hamas, which Israel has promised to delete, retains a strong presence in Gaza despite more than 15 months of heavy bombing of the most advanced army in the Middle East and the murder of Hamas leader, Yahya Al-Sinwar.
Palestinian prisoners include minors
Palestinian prisoners and detainees include 30 minors and some convicted members of Palestinian groups responsible for mortal attacks that have killed dozens of people in Israel.
Around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 hostages were kidnapped in the attack of Hamas in Israel, the most deadly individual day for the Jews from the Holocaust. Among the dead and kidnapped were dozens of Thai agricultural workers.
Israel’s military response has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and has wasted to the enclave of 2.3 million people, facing severe shortages of medicine, fuel and food.
Israel has killed several leaders of Hamas and another ally of Iran, the Hezbollah Movement of Lebanon, in parallel conflicts.
The residents of Hamas and Gaza accuse Israel of indiscriminate and disproportionate bombing. Israel says that measures are needed to protect civilians and accuse Hamas from the use of human shields in densely populated gaza, they carry them that denies.
Around half of the hostages were launched in November 2023 during the only previous truce, and others have been recovered dead or alive during the Israel military campaign in Gaza.
In the course of the war caused by Hamas’ attack, Israel has killed other leaders of Hamas, as well as the Hezbollah of Lebanon, hitting the great blows against the network of representatives of Iran in the Middle East. The fall of the president backed by Syria, Bashar al-Assad, was also an impulse for Israel.
More conversations about the implementation of the second stage of the agreement, which will begin before February 4, are destined to open the way to the release of more than 60 hostages, including military men, and a complete Israeli military retreat from Gaza.
If that succeeds, a formal end of the war could continue along with the conversations about the monumental challenge of rebuilding Gaza.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED -Reuters Union News Agency)
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