Hamas appoints three more Israeli prisoners who will be released at Gaza Compeaase Swap | Israel-Palestine News of Conflict
Israel and Hamas will make its own Fourth replacement for prisoners From Gaza, a ceasefire on Saturday with the Palestinian group that was supposed to free three Israeli prisoners in exchange for 90 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
In a statement about the Telegram on Friday, the armed wing of the Hamas, the Qassam Brigade, called three prisoners of the Israeli-Franciscan citizen of Calderon, Israeli citizen Yarden Bibas and Israeli-American Keith Siegel.
Bibas, 34, is the father of Kfir, who was nine months old when the Hamas family took in October 2023, and Ariel, who was four at the time.
There was no Israeli certificate of the fate of Kfir, Ariel or their mother Shiri.
But at the end of 2023, Hamas said that the children and their mother were killed by Israeli bombing in the first months of the war in Gaza.
Siegel, currently in his 50s, was taken with his wife Aviv, who was released by Hamas in the first exchange of prisoners for prisoners in November 2023.
Kalderon, also in the 50s, hamas abducted from his two children, Eres and Sahara. The children were also released in that first exchange.
Laura Khan Al Jazeera, who reported from Amman, Jordan, because Al Jazeera was forbidden to act in Israel, said the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said he had received and accepted the list.
She said that Bibas’ release would be considered particularly symbolic and important in Israel.
“It is interesting for two reasons. One is that in these negotiations there was a point of healing between Israel and Hamas, which is whether they will let men under the age of 50. At first, Hamas did not want to do so. They wanted to release civilians first, women and young, but then they decided [yield] Until that moment, “she said.
She said the second reason was that the Israelis expected Bibas, as well as Siegel and Kalderon, be released earlier as part of the first phase of the tribute, which entered into force on January 19th.
“However, they have not yet been released, and the Israeli forces in the past have said they are concerned about their well -being,” Khan said.
The Palestinian prisoner’s media office said 90 Palestinian prisoners, including nine maintenance of life sentences and 81 serving of long -term penalties, will be released on Saturday as part of replacement.
According to the terms of the ceasefire, 33 prisoners held by Hamas in Gaza, it is necessary to free it in the first six weeks of a ceasefire in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, many of whom served life penalties in Israel.
So far, 15 prisoners have been held in Gaza, including five Thai workers, and 400 Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas on Thursday released Three Israelis and five Thai prisoners and Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners after postponing the proceedings after the crowds overwhelmed one of the captured handings.
Reporting from Al-Rashid Street in Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum, Al Jazeera, he said that for many Palestine in Gaza, the return of Palestinian detainees “deeply symbolic victory”, which represents the resistance.
But he said many people were shocked by the chaotic scenes about the release of Israeli prisoners on Thursday.
“This includes the release of Arbel Yehud, which is criticized as completely disorganized and lacks the dignity expected during such sensitive moments,” he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled criticism in his country because he did not seal a capture agreement earlier in the war after a security failure that enabled fighters who underwent Hamas overwhelmed across the Gaza-Israel border and storms near the Israeli communities.
But there were oppositions Current jobfor which some critics in Israel said to leave the fate of the majority of prisoners in balance, and Hamas still stands as a dominant whole of Gaza.
At least 1,139 people were killed, and more than 200 were abducted in the attacks led by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023. Israel’s military response killed more than 47,000 Palestinian people in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health of the enclave.
About half of the prisoners were published in November 2023. During the only previous trial, and others were recovered dead or lived during the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
More implementation talks the second phase From the current ceasefire, which is due to start on March 1, it is intended to open the road to the release of more than 60 other prisoners, including men of military age and a full Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza.
If that succeeds, the formal end of the Israeli war in Gaza could follow with the conversations of the challenge of the mammoth reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave.