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Israel confirmed that their forces received three Israeli hostages. They will be taken to receive medical treatment and meet with their relatives after 16 months in captivity.
The Palestinian fighters of Hamas espolt Israeli hostages (LR, retention certificates) Ohad Ben Ami, or Levy and Eli Sharabi in a stage before delivering them to a Red Cross team in Deir El-Balah, Central Gaza.
The militants led by Hamas published three more hostages, all Israeli civilian men, to the Red Cross on Saturday, and Israel would free dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile agreement that has stopped the war in the Gaza Strip.
Israel confirmed that their forces received three Israeli hostages. They will be taken to receive medical treatment and meet with their relatives after 16 months in captivity.
The impressive proposal of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to transfer to the Palestinian population of Gaza, welcome by Israel, but rejected with vehemence by the Palestinians and the majority of the international community, does not seem to have affected the current phase of the truce, which extends until the beginning of March.
But I could complicate conversations in the second phase and more difficult, when Hamas releases dozens more than hostages in exchange for a durable fire. Hamas can be reluctant to release more captive, and lose their main negotiation chip, if you believe that the United States and Israel take the depopulation of the territory, that the rights groups say that it would violate international law.
The three hostages: Eli Sharabi, 52; Ohad Ben Ami, 56; I Levy, 34, seemed very demacrated and pale when Hamas armed combatants led them from a white van to a stage established in the city of Deir Al-Balah.
All were kidnapped during the attack led by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused the war.
Before a multitude of hundreds of people, Hamas fighters pointed a microphone to each of the three in turn and made them make a public statement, before giving them the Red Cross officials. It was the first time that the hostages released during this phase of the high fire have been made to make public statements during their release.
Hours before the launch, dozens of masked and armed hamas combatants, some that drive white trucks with weapons mounted on them, aligned in the location of the exchange near the North-South road of territory in the Central Gaza.
This was the fifth exchange of hostages for prisoners since the high fire began on January 19. Before Saturday, 18 hostages and more than 550 Palestinian prisoners had been released.
The first phase of Alto Fire demands the release of 33 hostages and almost 2,000 prisoners, the return of the Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to devastated territory. Last week, the injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Egypt for the first time since May.
Who was released on Saturday? Sharabi and Ben Ami were taken as hostages of Kibbutz Beeri, one of the most affected agricultural communities in the Hamas attack. Levy was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival, where he was taking refuge in a save when the militants arrived.
The wife of Sharabi and the two daughters of Teanage were killed during the attack of October 7, 2023, while his brother Yossi was also kidnapped and died in captivity. Levy’s wife was also killed during the attack. His now 3 -year -old son has been treated by relatives during the last 16 months.
Ben Ami, father of three children, was kidnapped with his wife, reason. Raz Ben Ami was released for a high -week fire in November 2023.
The relatives of the hostages cheered, applauded and cried while watching the live images of their loved ones being released.
Or Levy’s brother, Michael, said his brother’s little son, Almog, was already informed that his father was on his way.
“Mogi, we found Dad,” said Michael Levy, told the child, using his nickname, in an interview with Channel 12 Israeli. “We have not seen happiness like that for a long time.” The 183 Palestinian prisoners who will be released by Israel on Saturday include 18 people who serve life imprisonment for committing mortal attacks, 54 long -term convictions and 111 Palestinians from Gaza who were arrested after the attack of October 7. All are men, aged between 20 and 61 years.
While Israel considers them terrorists, the Palestinians see them as heroes fighting the Israeli occupation. Virtually all Palestinians have a friend, relative or known who has been imprisoned.
More than 100 hostages were released for a high -week fire in November 2023. More than 70 are still in Gaza, and Israel has said that it is believed that 34 were killed in the initial attack or that they have died in captivity. Israel says that Hamas has confirmed that eight of the 33 that will be launched in the first phase of Alto El Fuego are dead.
The high fire is maintained, but the next phase is uncertain that it is not clear if Israel and Hamas have begun to negotiate a second phase of high fire, which requires freeing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely. The war could be resumed in early March if an agreement is not reached.
Israel says he is still committed to destroying Hamas, even after the militant group reaffirmed his government over Gaza a few hours after the last high fire. A key -right key partner in the Netanyahu coalition is asking the war to resume after the first phase of Alto El Fuego.
Hamas says he will not free the remaining hostages without the end of the war and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
In the October 7 attack that the war began, some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in the War of Repliation and the Land War of Israel, more than half of them women and children, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, which does not say how many dead were militants.
The Israeli army says that it killed more than 17,000 combatants, without providing evidence. Kake Hamas civil deaths because their combatants operate in residential neighborhoods.
Major militants among the Palestinian prisoners prepared for the release of the 72 security prisoners released on Saturday, five resources from eastern Jerusalem, 14 of the Gaza Strip and the remaining 53 of occupied West Bank. Seven are scheduled to be transferred to Egypt before greater deportation.
A total of 47 prisoners will be released on Saturday from the prison of Offer, in the West Bank, and were transferred to the Palestinian custody at the crossing point of Betunia near the Ramallah administrative center, where dozens of family, friends and followers were preparing for A welcome hero for the returnees.
Palestinian security prisoners were arrested for crimes ranging from bomb attacks to participation in militant organizations, in some cases dating from decades.
Among them is Iyad Abu Shakhdam, 49, who has been locked up for almost 21 years for his participation in the militant attacks of Hamas in crowded civil areas that killed dozens of Israelis during the Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s. That included a notorious suicidal bus bombard in 2004 in the city of the southern desert of Israel de Beersheba that killed 16 people, including a 4 -year -old boy.
Another is Jamal Al-Tawil, an outstanding Hamas politician in the occupied West Bank and former mayor of the Al-Bireh village, placing Ramallah.
It has been almost two decades inside and outside the Israeli prison, and the military reported their last arrest in 2021 for their alleged participation in violent disturbances and efforts to strengthen Hamas’ leadership in the West Bank. It was transferred to administrative detention, a period of six months renewable repeatedly in which the suspects are carried out without charge or trial.
Israel captured the West, Gaza and Jerusalem in the Middle East War of 1967. The Palestinians want the three territories for their future state.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED -Associated Press Union News Agency)
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