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Four women’s Israeli soldiers who held the Hamas trapped with Israeli forces after being handed over to the Red Cross staff on Saturday, as the truck agreement in the Gaza bar entered its second week.
About 200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons were also published later during the day, under the terms of an agreement that stopped more than 15 months of war. The truce came into force last Sunday with publication Three Israeli female civilian hostage and 90 Palestinian detainees.
Four soldiers who returned to Israel-Liri Albag, 19, Daniella Gilbo, 20, Karina Ariev, 20 and Naama Levy, are from the 20th Military Border of Israel-Gaza during the Hamas on October 7, 2023. That triggered a conflict. The pictures and videos of their bloody abduction were broadcast last year. Their freedom became the central demand of movement to let go of the ground, bending around the family of those who were still trapped in Gaza.
The pre -Masked Hamas of the attacker on the Red Cross took place in the Palestine of the City of Gaza, in the middle of a set of hundreds of uniform and armed militants and cheerleading viewers.
Four Israeli women marched across the square and on a small stage that carries a banner, in Hebrew, in which it was that “Zionism would not win”. After the crowds were waved briefly, they were introduced into the Red Cross vehicles.
The Red Cross then drove four to the laptop where they handed over to Israeli special forces and intelligence agents.
The Hamasa force play spread over the gaza belt, with white truck convoys filled with armed and flying Green Hamas flag on Arab television cells and social media.
This second meal of hostage is a hostage of prison for a moment on Friday night, he was thrown in doubt after Hamas announced that four soldiers would be released.
Israeli officials claimed that it was a violation of the conditions of an agreement calling for civilian women who are still living – who are believed to remain left in captivity – who will be released in front of the soldiers. The Israeli government, however, decided to move forward, and it remains unclear whether civilian, Arbel Yehud, will be released as part of the exchange next week.
Mediens under the leadership of the United States have secured six weeks of agreement this month on the termination of fire between Israel and Hamas, the first phase of a complex three-stage agreement that could permanently end the war and provide the release of the remaining 90 hostages Hamas held.
Donald Trump warned that there would be “all hell to pay” if no agreement had been reached on Monday before his inauguration. On Friday, the new US president said: “The agreement should be held, but if it is not, there will be a lot of problems.”
According to the terms of the agreement, the first phase consists of releasing 33 Israeli hostages – including children, women, sick and older – in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, hundreds of whom serve long -term sentences in terrorism and accusations for murder. The editions should take place in weekly installments during 42 days of the first phase.
During this time of Israeli troops, they are withdrawn from populated areas on the broken territory, and the displaced Palestinians will be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gazi starting on Saturday. Humanitarian aid to enter the tape has already increased suddenly over the past week.
By the 16th day of the first phase, Israel and Hamas should start negotiating the details of the second phase, during which the remaining life hostages will be liberated in exchange for several Palestinian prisoners, the further withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and much end of the war. The last phase will include the return of the bodies of the deceased hostages and the beginning of the gauze reconstruction.
