Jerusalem:
Hamas released three Israeli men, who remained captive in the Gaza Strip for 16 months, while Israel began to release dozens of Palestinians as part of the truce agreement. The day began in Deir Al-Balah in Gaza, where Hamas delivered to the hostages, Ohad Ben Ami, or Levy and Eli Sharabi, to the Red Cross officials, the fifth group released under a fragile high El Fuego de Gaza.
Emacized and disoriented, the three men were forced by their captors to go to crowds gathered in their delivery ceremony. A banner on the other side of the erected platform for the exchange declared “Total Victoria” for Hamas in Hebrew and had images of destroyed and oxidized Israeli military vehicles.
The three Israelis of Hamas’ terrorist organization are launched, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Levy, had been held in Gaza for 16 months.
This is the fifth exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Israel will launch 183 Palestinian … pic.twitter.com/s4b8q91vfh– Blue Owl (@Bluewlhoots) February 8, 2025
Later they were delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was to transport them to the Israeli forces in Gaza. Its launch was applauded by their families in Israel, a video of which it was shared by Israle War Room.
“It seemed like a skeleton, it was horrible to see,” said Michal Cohen, Ohad Ben Ami’s mother -in -law, Michal Cohen, while watching the transfer ceremony directed by Hamas.
The families of the three hostages launched look at the captivity of Hamas: pic.twitter.com/3fzxMNWJPC
– Israel War Room (@israelwarrom) February 8, 2025
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, also denounced the treatment of Israeli hostages as a “crime against humanity” after men were parading on stage.
“This is how you see a crime against humanity! The entire world must look directly at Ohad, Oy Eli, returning after 491 days of hell, hungry, demaciously and sore, being exploited in a cynical and cruel show by vile murderers “said the Israeli head of state in a statement about X.
About Israeli hostages released on truce swap
AMI and Sharabi were taken as hostages of Kibbutz Be’eri during the cross -border attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, while Levy was kidnapped that day of the Nova Music Festival.
Ohad Ben Ami – He was kidnapped with his wife Raz Ben Ami of his house in Kibbutz Beeri. The images have circulated on social networks that show that it was seized in a shirt and underwear. His wife, Ben Ami, who has a dual Israeli and German citizenship, was released during a one -week truce in November 2023.
Eli Sharabi -Sharabi, who will turn 53 in February, was at home in Kibbutz Beeri with his wife born in British and his two teenage daughters when Hamas attacked him on October 7, 2023. The armed men shot his dog, before Lush the family in their safe room and setting it on fire. His wife’s bodies and two daughters were identified later.
He was taken to Gaza along with his brother Yossi. The Israeli army said at the beginning of last year that Yossi was killed and his body was in the hands of Hamas in Gaza.
Or tax -Levy and his wife Einav Levy went to the Nova Music Festival, leaving their two -year -old Almog with their grandparents. The generally inseparable couple, who met at high school, tried to hide from Hamas attackers along Route 232, the only way away from the festival.
“When the shots exploded shortly after their arrival, they sought refuge in a specific safe room, later known as ‘The Death Bunker’. There, Einav was killed or taken captive,” said the forum of families and missing in a statement in a statement .
Israel releases Palestinian prisoners
In exchange for the liberation of the hostages, the Office of Prison Media directed by Hamas said that Israel is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners, some convicted of participation in attacks that killed dozens of people, as well as 111 detainees in Gaza during the war .
“This release marks a new milestone in the current fight to free all the prisoners,” said the statement.
Before today, at least 383 prisoners had been released as part of the Alto El Fuego agreement between Israel and Hamas, which entered into force last month.
What does the deal say?
Since the truce entered into force on January 19, 16 Israeli and dual national hostages have been released, as well as five Thai outside the agreement.
A total of 33 hostages, eight of which Israel says they are dead, will be ready during the first 42 -day phase of the agreement in exchange for approximately 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail.
The fate of the remaining children held in Gaza, Kfir Bibas and his brother Ariel, as well as his mother Shiri Bibas, is still unknown.
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