Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza, keeping hope alive for the 2nd exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners Blogging Sole

Tel Aviv – like the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Held at its sixth day, the terrorist group appointed by the United States and the United States published the names on Friday of the next four Israeli hostages which it affirms its publication on Saturday, in exchange for 200 more Palestinian detainees who were held in Israeli prisons. The hostages appointed by Hamas are all Israeli soldiers, in accordance with a declaration given by a Hamas official earlier in the week.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in a brief statement that he had received the list of hostages from Hamas on Friday, but he did not immediately confirm the identity of women who should return home on Saturday.

Women soldiers identified for Liberation on Friday by the armed wing of Hamas, the brigades of Al-Qassam, were all removed from the army base of Nahal Oz in southern Israel during the terrorist attack of the terrorist attack Group of October 7, 2023. These are: Karina Ariev, 20 years old; Daniela Gilboa, 20, that Hamas published a video of life proof in July 2024; Naama Levmy, 20, who was seen on video being packed in a jeep, hands tied behind his back during the attack, and Liri Albag, 19, who had just started his military training as a lookout for the armed on the basis of Nahal Oz.

Albag’s family said they had managed to send them messages through other hostages that had been previously published.

There are currently seven Israeli women who are held in Gaza, including five members of the FDI service and two civilians. One of the civilians is Arbel Yehoud, who was removed in the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 against Kibbutz Nir Oz and whose last frightening message to his partner Ariel Cunio was: “We are in a horror film.”

The other is Shiri Bibas, who was taken with his two young children Ariel and Kfir. Hamas said Shiri, Ariel and Kfir were then killed in an Israeli bombardment. In a television interview in June, the Israeli minister at the time, Benny Gantz, said the government knew what had happened to the Bibas family, but said that he could not provide details.

Three Israeli hostages published by Hamas

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A Hamas official said that under the terms of The ceasefire Agreement, for each liberated Israeli soldier, Israel is expected to release 30 prisoners who were sentenced to life and 20 additional prisoners who had long sentences.

Netanyahu’s office said he would publish a list later on Friday of Palestinians that he intends to release in the next exchange. Most of them should be women, just as the 90 prisoners are released during the first exchange on January 19, a few hours after the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement

Exit from Hamas from first three hostages A week ago – three Israeli women, including a double British national – played in images broadcast in the world. Red cross vehicles were first seen heading for Gaza City before sunset, as a sign that the agreement was on the right track. In one of the largest places in Gaza City, the door of a Hamas vehicle opened and Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31 and thousands of spectators looked at.

If the following four Israelis are released as expected on Saturday, 89 hostages – both alive and dead – would remain in Gaza, according to Israeli officials, including seven two American nationals: Keith Siegel, 65, of Chapel Hill, Caroline du Nord; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, who grew up in Bloomfield, Connecticut; And Edan Alexander, 19, from Tenafly, New Jersey.

Four other Americans were reportedly killed during the 15 months of war.

Gaza’s ceasefire has tested, but holding

In Gaza, the ceasefire was Tested by isolated violence This week but took place.

The bombing of Israeli tanks killed two Palestinians on Thursday in the first bloodshed since the air strikes stopped on Sunday morning. The Israeli army said its forces in southern Gaza had opened fire on masked and armed suspects moving to the troops and presenting a threat. The FDI said that the incident occurred in the east of the southern city of Gaza in Rafah and in the Kerem Shalom border crossing region with Israel, through which some aid trucks are now delivering food, water and medical supplies.

The UN indicates that more than 650 trucks carrying food and other humanitarian supplies were introduced in Gaza on Thursday, slightly in the 600 per day agreed in the cease-fire agreement.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds while the aid is brought to Gaza

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The dozens, if not hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans, are impatiently waiting for the coming weekend, preparing to return freely to the decimated north of the enclave, as was also agreed in the agreement. A sinister indication of what awaits them has already been discovered by those who have returned to the houses, or what left in the south.

The returnees found entire districts reduced to the rubble, and even without the really necessary heavy machines, they started the work of reconstruction and the sinister task of finding and digging the remains of their loved ones. Nearly 200 organizations have been found since Sunday, but the civil defense rescue agency of the Hamas enclave estimates that more than 10,000 bodies are probably still under the rubble, and it accepts that some are never found.

In Rafah, Mohammed Mustafa Hamad Qeshta told CBS News team in Gaza on Wednesday that a TSAhal strike killed his brother Ibrahim 261 days earlier.

“Today, we took it out with the broom,” he shouted. “The whole house collapsed and came across him. We called the Civil Defense, asking for help to recover your body. They kept saying they will do it, but it is delayed, and we want to take out their body. We decided to dig it ourselves and take it out. I called my friends and we agreed to come here after morning prayer and collaborate. After digging a lot and transporting many stones, we found its sweater. We found its green sweater and I called the family to tell them that we found it. »»

Ibrahim’s mother, Sameera Masoud Al-Shaer, told CBS News that she was at least delighted with the closure.

“I am happy, and it is tears of joy,” she said. “I’m happy to have found it. It’s the best time. I was waiting for the ceasefire so that I could see it. It’s the best moment in my life. Thank God, the wall fell on him and we were able to find the whole body and it was not eaten by the dogs. »»

Although the ceasefire in Gaza has held, the FDIs redirected its objective and its firepower this week that it says to be activists supported by Iran in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory much larger than ‘Israel has long occupied.

4 injured in Tel Aviv’s stabbing attack; Gaza residents are starting to return to what remains of the houses

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The FDI Operation launched “Iron Wall” On Tuesday, one day after President Trump canceled an executive decree of the Biden era which had imposed sanctions on certain Israeli settlers in the West Bank which were considered a threat to peace and security.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank since the start of the FDI offensive, at least a dozen Palestinians have been killed and dozens of other injured since the start of the FDI offensive.

On Friday, the United Nations denounced what it called the use by Israel of “war fight” methods in the West Bank.

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