The Israeli troops prevented Palestinians from returning to their homes in the north of Gaza’s belts on Sunday, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the terms of agreement on the interruption of fire, which entered into force a week ago.
According to the terms of the initial phase of work agreed for this monthIt was expected that Israel would pull some of its forces to allow hundreds of thousands of displaced residents gauze to go north after hostage exchange and prisoner Saturday.
But Contraadmiral Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli army, accused Hamas on Saturday of breaking the deal for not first returning the captured Israeli civilians. Israeli officials said that under the agreement, Arbel Yehud, an Israelis held as a hostage in Gaza, was to be one of four women liberated on Saturday.
The hostage -free hostages were all soldiers who were guards at the border with Gaza and who were abducted on October 7, 2023, during an attack on Israel led by Hamas and started war.
The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahua announced that he would not allow the inhabitants of Gaza to go north “until the release of civilian Arbel Yehuda was organized, leaving the unclear time of pulling the trunk and the return of the inhabitants.
On Sunday, Hamas accused Israel of delaying and violating the agreement by preventing the displaced by the residents of Gaza to move north.
In a statement, Hamas said he had informed the mediators that Mrs Yehud was alive and that he gave “all necessary guarantees for her liberation”, adding that he follows the mediators in the hope that he would solve the dispute – one of the most significant between the sides since the fire broke Power after 15 months of devastating war.
An agreement on the termination of fire was reached with the mediation of the United States, Qatar and Egypt. Israeli officials did not immediately respond to the requests for commentary on Hamas’s claims.
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