Hamas releases another 8 hostages, Israel releases 110 prisoners after delaying – nationally
Israel was released on Thursday 110 Palestinian prisoners after eight hostages in Tape released them Hamas-Mod militants earlier that day in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly questioned and underlined the fragility of the tribute that began this month.
The crowds of Palestinians – relatives and friends of released prisoners, but also a lot of cheerful supporters – mobile buses transporting prisoners. As soon as they left the bus, the audience lifted the prisoners into the air.
The discharged prisoners include 30 who served life sentences due to deadly attacks against Israelis; Seven were allowed to return to the occupied west coast, but the others were transferred to Egypt before further deportation.
The editions of the prisoners began late on Thursday after the militants in Gaza freed three Israelites and five Thai nationals, who worked on farms in South Israel, when they took hostage more than 15 months ago.
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The edition is part of the trial aimed at ending the most deadly and most devastating war ever struggled between Israel and Hamas and securing dozens of hostages abducted in the attack by a Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Hamas confirmed the death of Mohammed Deifa, the head of his military wing, six months after Israel announced that he had been killed.
It was the first statement that Hamas published on Deif’s state since the Israeli army announced last August that he was killed in air attack in southern Gaza a month before.
The announcement on Thursday culminated for months of speculation about the fate of Deif, one of the alleged masters of attack on October 7th to Israel who launched a war in Gaza. He has been on top of the most interesting Israel for years.
The chaos scenes as a hostage are published
They broke out while the convoy of the bus transporting Palestinian prisoners left their Israeli prison on the west coast. Palestinian teenagers threw stones outside the complex, and the Israeli forces dropped a tear gas as they tried to clean the area.
Three Palestinians were wounded in conflicts outside of prison, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, who said that the Israeli forces used shooting and stunned by grenades to dispel the crowd.
As the Red Cross buses approached, the Palestinian prisoners of Palestinian captured their first glances of their loved ones through the windshield with the bus, some broke into the hustle of the stone and cracking of tears.
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Zakaria Zubeidi – a prominent former militant leader and a theater director who participated in the dramatic Jailbreak in 2021 before he wore a gray prison overalls and flashed a sign of victory from one of the buses.
The inappropriateness came for several hours after the chaotic handover of the hostages in the Gaza belt, where the masked militants transferred some prisoners through the hoops of thousands of Palestinians.
Hamas released seven hostages in front of the destroyed home of his killed leader, Yahya Sinwar, as thousands pressed. The militant group called him a “determination of determination”, but launched the latest in a series of disputes sent to us and the Arab mediators who strive to pat the truce.
The first hostage – female soldier Agam Berger, 20 – was released after Hamas paradated her in front of a smaller crowd in a very destroyed urban refugee camp Jabaliya in northern Gaza.
A few hours later, the chaotic scene took place at the surrender of the other seven in the southern city of Khan Younis. Hundreds of militants from Hamas and a smaller Islamic jihad group arrived with a convoy, and thousands of people gathered to watch, some from the lean roofs bombed buildings.
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The shots showed that hostage Arbel Yehoud, 29, looked amazed as the masked militants were chasing her through the shouting audience, pushing people back. Gadi Moses, an 80-year-old Israeli man and five Thai workers were also published. Both Yehoud and Moses are double German-Israeli nationals.
Netanyahu condemned the “shocking scene” and invited international intermediaries to ensure the safety of hostages in future editions.
Israel identified Thai hostage published as: Wather Shirioun, 33; Pongsak Thaenna, 36; Sathian Suwannakham, 35; Surazak Rumno, 32; and Bannawat Saethao, 27. Thai officials said they seemed to be in good health.
Twenty -three Thais were among more than 100 hostages published during the weekly truck in November 2023. Israel says the three Thai people have remained in captivity, which is believed to be two dead.
Yehoud was at the heart of the dispute earlier this week because of a sequence in which hostages would be released. The United States, Egypt and Qatar, who compared the truce after a year of difficult negotiations, resolved it with an agreement that Yehoud would be released with others on Thursday.
About 20 years from Yehoud gathered in southern Israel watched the tense scene going on live television. Some cried. Others had their hands over their eyes or mouth. The crowd then flared up tears after being transferred to the Red Cross.
The 80-year-old Gadi Moses looked amazed as Israeli soldiers led him to the area where he needed to reunite with his family. The shots posted by the Israeli army showed that his cousin had broken into the room, accepting an elderly man. His daughter repeatedly exclaimed, “My father, my father!”
So far it is kept, but the next stage will be more difficult
In the first phase of the tribute, Hamas was supposed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages, including women, children, older adults and sick or wounded men, in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel says Hamas confirmed that eight hostages that would be released at this stage were dead.
A line of white buses transporting Palestinian prisoners who were released on Thursday to prison on the west coast and head to Beitunah, near the occupied city of the western Ramallah, where relatives and celebrations were waiting.
The Palestinians cheered the prisoners’ release, which they widely seen as heroes who sacrificed themselves because of the cause of the end of the Israeli decade of occupation of countries who want for a future state.
In the meantime, Israeli forces withdrew from most gauze, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to return to what remains from their homes and humanitarian groups to increase help.
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The contract calls for Israel and Hamas to negotiate the second phase in which Hamas will release the remaining hostages, and the truce will continue on forever. The war could continue in early March if the agreement was not reached.
Israel says that it is still dedicated to the destruction of the Hamas, even after the militant group has reaffirmed its authority over Gaza within a few hours of the trial. The key extreme right partner in the Netanyahu coalition, but invites the war to continue after the first phase of the tribute.
Hamas says he will not let go hostage without interruption of war and the completely Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas began the war when he sent thousands of fighters who were falling into Israel. The militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250.
The Israeli War that followed in the air and ground floor was among the most deadly and destructive in decades. More than 47,000 Palestinians were killed, more than half of women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say how many dead were militants.
The Israeli army says that she killed over 17,000 fighters without giving evidence and that she went to a big try to spare civilians. He blames civilian deaths for Hamas because his fighters work in thick housing districts and put military infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques.
The Israeli offensive transformed the entire neighborhood into the thunder of gray ruins, and it is unclear that anything will be restored. About 90% of the Gaza population has been displaced, often repeatedly, with hundreds of thousands of people living in camps with tents or closed schools.
Shurafa reported from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip and Krauss from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The writer’s writer Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel contributed.