Israel releases Palestinian detainees after delaying over a chaotic surrender of 8 hostages
On Thursday, Hamas released three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza, and Israel began to release 110 Palestinian prisoners after postponing the anger proceedings for the crowds at one of the hostages.
Arbel Yehoud, 29 years old, abducted by Kibbutz Nir Oz in an attack on Israel on Israel, October 7, 2023, looked terrible and struggled to go through a charged crowd as armed militants handed her to the Red Cross in a tense scene in the South City scene Khan Younis.
Another Israeli hostage, Gadi Moses, 80, was also released along with five Thai nationals who worked on Israeli farms near Gaza when militants broke through the border fence. The doctor said that Moses was in relatively good condition, but that he would continue to be monitored.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the form of their handover in the middle of the crowd was shocking everywhere and threatened to death to all who hurt the hostages.
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said they ordered delays in prisoner editions “until the safe exit of our hostages is ensured in the following stages.” The Prime Minister’s office later said that the mediators were obliged to ensure a safe hostage passage in future lecturers.
Later on Thursday, buses arrived in Ramallah, a city on the West Coast, transported some of the 110 Palestinian prisoners who were liberated as part of a gradual agreement that stopped more than 15 months of war in the coastal territory. Women in traditional full Palestinian dresses cried, while men sang, “We sacrifice our soul and blood for you.”
A prominent prisoner liberated
Zakaria Zubaidi, one of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Brigade, the armed wing of Hamas’s rival The Fatah Group, was the most prominent Palestinian prisoner who was released. He escaped in prison in 2021. With three other prisoners, but then he was drawn.
Zubaidi has always been known as the strong city of the western coast of Jenina and is known there as a “dragon”. The city is the focal point of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation and the places of frequent raids of the Israeli army, including a major surgery just a week ago.
“Thank God who blessed me today. Let the souls of the martyr rest in peace in peace,” Zubaidi said to the jubilee crowds that gathered to greet him in Ramallah.
Asked about reports Israel will not allow him to return home to Jenin’s refugee camp, Zubaidi replied: “The dragon owned the country and the hunter must leave.”
Palestinians injured by Israeli fire
Palestinian health officials said that the Israeli fire was injured at least 14 Palestinians, some with living and rubber bullets, others from gas inhalation, while gathering at the entrance to Ramallah to welcome the liberated detainees.
The videos showed that the Palestinians threw stones at the police and then fled when the police started shooting.
Some prisoners from East Jerusalem arrived in their homes, while others were taken to Gaza or deported to Egypt.
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“Our daughter is strong, faithful and brave,” her family statement said. “Now Agam and our family can start the healing process, but recovery will not be complete until all hostages are back home.”
The video posted by Netanyahu’s office showed the pale Berger crying and smiling while sitting in his mother’s lap.
Netanyahu confronted criticism in Israel because he had not previously sealed a hostage job after a security failure that enabled Hamas on October 7th.
Hamas, who has vowed to be deleted, is still a strong presence in Gaza, despite the great bombing of the most advanced army in the Middle East for more than 15 months and the assassination of Hamas’s Yahyya al-Sinwar leader.
“The murder of the leader makes people only stronger and stubborn,” said Hamas’ tall clerk Sam Abu Zuhri about Sinwar, filmed by an Israeli unmanned aircraft, throwing a piece of wood on the device in his last defiance of Israel.
The release in Khan Younis took place near the bombarded Sinwar ruins.
The Israelis gathered in what became known as the hostage square in Tel Aviv, cheering and crying as they watched the edition on the giant screen. Hostages will be taken to the hospital for treatment.
Some cheered up as an envoy of US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, arrived at the Square, in an apparent gratitude for his role in securing an agreement on a tribute. He shakes with some people, including members of the hostage family.
About 1,200 people were killed, and more than 250 hostages were abducted in the Hamas attack in Israel, the bloodiest individual attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Health officials in Gaza say that the military response of Israel killed more than 47,000 Palestinians and laid a waste in an enclave of 2.3 million people who face a major lack of medicine, fuel and food.
About half of the hostages were published next month during the only prior trunk, and others were recovered dead or lived during the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of gazans, the most displaced several times during the conflict, returned to their neighborhood in the north, where the fighting was most intense. Many considered their homes in the absence of basic goods.
Israel still states 82 prisoners in Gaza, and about 30 was declared dead in absence.
During the war that launched the Hamas attack, Israel killed other Hamas leaders, as well as Lebanon Hezbollah, hitting the big blows to the Iranian network of Proxy in the Middle East. The fall of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad Iran was also an incentive for Israel.
Israeli forces intensified operations on the second Palestinian territory, the west coast, as Gaza ended in force by saying that they were aiming for militants there.
After hostages released, Hamas confirmed that the military leader Mohammed Deif, who surpassed the attack on October 7, was killed, more than five months after Israel claimed that he had killed him in July an air attack.