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International intermediaries resolved disagreements over fragile interruptions of fire in Gaza and Lebanon late Sunday, after the conflicts involving the Israeli army and civilians threatened to undermine both agreements.
The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Hamas will release three hostages in Gaza on Thursday, including Arbela Yehuda, resolving the first major crisis of an agreement on the termination of fire in Gaza, which entered into force a week ago.
In turn, Israel will allow the displaced Palestinians to go to their homes in the north of the destroyed territory from Monday.
Question of Yehud’s liberation has tightened the truce between Israel and Hamas with US mediation despite release Saturday Four Israeli soldiers from Gaza and 200 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prison.
Israeli officials claimed that the Hamas, a Palestinian militant group controlling Gaza, violated the agreement when he liberated the soldiers before Yehud, who is the last civilian woman hostage that she is believed to be alive in Gaza.
Israel responded to the delay of withdrawal from the strategic corridor Netzarim, which intersects the north and south gauze, blocking hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return to the northern part of the territory, as stated in the agreement.
During the weekend, the Palestinian masses gathered near the hallway and some families slept outside in the winter cold.
The Israeli army announced that she had dropped “thousands of warnings of several dozen suspects who had progressed to the soldiers and represented them with a threat.”
Gaza health authorities said two people were killed and nine were injured in conflicts on Sunday.
American, Qatari and Egyptian intermediaries were able to solve the crisis by effectively ensuring the release of additional hostages this Thursday, including Yehuda.
The weekly release of hostages, which should be held next Saturday, will take place as planned, and it is expected that three more Israelis will be released, according to Israeli officials.
In return, several hundred Palestinian prisoners will also be released from Israeli prison.
On Sunday, Hamas gave Israel a list of the remaining hostages in captivity that will be released as part of the initial six -week trial, with details whether they are alive or dead.
The war in Gaza was launched by Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, during which the fighters of that group killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages.
Israel answered the offensive in Gauze who killed more than 47,000 people and encouraged a humanitarian disaster in the territory.
US President Donald Trump called Egypt and Jordan yes take into yourself Most of the population treads, saying that it is time to “purify” the territory, but its proposal rejected two Arab countries.
In the meantime, Trump’s administration has announced that an agreement on the termination of fire between Israel and Lebanon, reached last November with US mediation, will be extended until February 18th.
The agreement stopped over a year of struggle between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group that attacked the Jewish state in solidarity with Hamas.
Israel Last week, she made it clear that she would not fulfill a two -month deadline until Sunday to withdraw her army from southern Lebanon.
Israel claimed that the arrangement of the Lebanese army in the areas that left both his troops and the Hezbollah fighters were too slow to fulfill the deadline.
While the Israeli forces were still held by the territory within Lebanon, hundreds of inhabitants found themselves under the Israeli fire as they tried to return to their villages on foot.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 22 people were killed on Sunday and 124 were injured.
