Tel Aviv – Three other Israeli hostages – two women and an 80 -year -old man – were released on Thursday in Gaza while the third hostages for taking Israel and Hamas started, but the chaotic nature of the transfer of two of the Israelis has angry Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insofar as he delayed the share of his country of exchange until the day later during the day.
Israel began to release Palestinian prisoners from OFER prison in the West Bank later Thursday, keeping its share of the third exchange in the middle of the current ceasefire. Buses carrying what was to be 110 prisoners released on Thursday was seen by leaving prison approximately two hours after the Netanyahu spokesman said that he had “asked to delay the release of the planned terrorists today – until to the fact that the safe release of our hostages is guaranteed in the coming days.
Netanyahu’s office has published a later declaration saying that, as a result of his request, the cease-fire mediators “adopted a commitment according to which a safe outing will be guaranteed for our kidnapped which will be released during the next payments. Israel insists that the lessons will be learned and that in the coming times, there will be additional care to return our kidnapping safely. »»
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There were Palestinians among those who were released on Thursday who had been accused and, in some cases, found guilty of serious crimes against the Israelis, including murder. Most prisoners were released and allowed to stay in the West Bank, but some were sent to third countries, according to Israeli officials.
The Israeli army confirmed that five Thai nationals were also published Thursday by activists in Gaza, as had been expectedas part of a separate agreement.
The first Israeli released on Thursday was the woman soldier Agam Berger, 20. It was a relatively ordered manner in the middle of the ruins of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Berger was the last hostage of an entirely non -armed female Israeli unity unity that worked to watch Gaza.
Handout / Israeli Defense Forces
Seven women in the shepherd unit were taken hostage during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel, who saw activists kill around 1,200 people and take a total of 251 other hostages.
Israel’s military response to the attack killed more than 47,300 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas, and decimated Palestinian territory, moving almost its entire population and provoking a large -scale humanitarian crisis .
Berger was escorted by activists out of the back of a building destroyed in Jabalia. Bearing an outfit that looked like green military fatigue, it was given to the members of the Red Cross. Photos shared later by the Israeli army showed him found with his parents.
Two other Israeli hostages published Thursday were Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, who was the oldest hostages. Thursday, the three released hostages were transferred to the Red Cross care to the Israeli forces, confirmed Israeli defense forces.
Document family / Moses
In a joint statement, the FDI and the Israeli security agency said that Yehoud and Moïse, as well as Thai nationals, had “crossed the border on Israeli territory” and were on the way to a reception point in the south of ‘Israel. The press release indicates that Yehoud and Moses would find their families there, because Berger was earlier, while the five Thai nationals would be respected by officials of the Thai government.
The video showed that Yehoud was transferred to the Red Cross, more than an hour after the Liberation of Berger, in the city of southern Khan Younis in the middle of chaos scenes. Yehoud and Moses had been detained by the militant group Islamic Jihad, allied in Hamas.
A huge crowd had gathered in Khan Younis to attend the transmission, which took place near the house of The deceased commander of Hamas Yahya Sinwar. Dozens of militants armed in Hamas and Islamic jihad paraded through the region and the transfer of prisoners was chaotic, with armed activists, photographers and civilians who crowded around the hostages while they were moved to vehicles From the Red Cross pending.
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Netanyahu published a statement condemning the “shocking scenes”, calling the crushing of people around the hostages “another proof of the unimaginable cruelty of the terrorist organization Hamas”.
“I ask the mediators to make sure that such threats will not happen again and to guarantee the security of our kidnapped,” said Netanyahu.
To himself Declaration published onlineHamas called large crowds, “a message of determination and challenge raised in the face of this barbaric occupier. He says that our people will remain on their land and will be determined to fulfill their release, return and self -determination project. »»
Hamas did not immediately react to Netanyahu’s order to delay the release of 110 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
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Netanyahu’s order marked the second delay in the process of exchange hostages and prisoners stated by the cease-fire agreement that the Israeli leader accused Hamas.
Under the terms of the agreement, Yehoud should have been among the Four freed women During the second exchange on January 24. After this release last weekend, the terms of the agreement stipulated that Israel would release a certain number of Palestinian prisoners from prisons and will allow Palestinians to return home in the north of Gaza, through the Netzarim corridor, which divides the north and south of the enclave.
When Yehoud was not among the people freed last weekend, Israel said that this would not allow the Palestinians to cross the Corridor of Netzarim. After a rapid negotiation process, Hamas agreed to release previously unforeseen hostages on Thursday, to include Yehoud.
In anticipation of publication and according to the new agreement, Israel began to allow the Palestinians to cross The Netzarim corridor in the north of Gaza on Monday.
Tens of thousands of people have northMost of them on foot, some finding the ruins of their houses and the remains of dear beings, but also bringing together with family members that they have not been able to see for months.
Hamas and its allies should release a total of 33 Israeli hostages during the first phase of six weeks of the ceasefire, which Taken effect on January 19. It should be hoped that negotiations on the second much more difficult phase of the ceasefire plan are starting to progress soon.
The next exchange, which will be the fourth, should take place on Saturday. Netanyahu said this would include the release of male hostages in Gaza.
The release of the three people left 82 hostages on Thursday – both alive and dead – still 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. We still don’t know when one of the Americans could be released.
The high official of Hamas, Bassem Naim, told CBS News on Wednesday that the group had remained attached to the ceasefire agreement: “And we will do our best to make it work and try to overcome obstacles and The challenges, but we expect the Israelis to continue to try to find reasons to stop implementing the agreement, in part to cover their failure in achieving their goals in Gaza, or because of the scenes that have showed the will of the people of Gaza. »»
Publisher’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Israeli hostage released Arbel Yehoud is not a soldier, as indicated above.
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