Palestinian terrorist group Hamas posted The names of three soils It should be released on Saturday, including the American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, after a day of concern that an agreement on the interruption of fire with Israel could be demolished.
Russian-Israeli Alexander Troofanov and Argentine-Israeli Yair Horn, who, together with Dekel-Chan, abducted Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz October 2023, will also be published on Saturday, which will mark 497 days in diverties.
Dekel -che is the second American who has published Hamas since President Donald Trump re-entered the office after the release of Keith Siegel on February 1.
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Hamas said he would be published by Alexander (Sasha) Troponov, 29, Sagi Dekel-Chen, 36, Yair Horn, 46, on Saturday, February 15, 2025. In the next hostage edition.
International concerns about the stability of the tribute has reached new heights after Hamas threatened to no longer let go of hostage – In a direct violation of the agreement – after claiming that Israel had violated the contract without facilitating the transportation of humanitarian aid and targeting Palestinians in air attacks.
Trump then said on Monday that Israel should cancel an agreement if Hamas did not hand over all the remaining hostages, not just three of the scheduled ones that would be released on February 15 under the trial agreement.
Concerns when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also invited Hamas to release hostage on Saturday on Tuesday, but did not specify all the hostages or three who had previously agreed.
“The Israeli formal view is that we have an agreement that should be fulfilled,” confirmed the retired Idf Major General Yaak’s Amidror on Thursday during a debate led by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA).
US President Donald Trump, accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), speaks during a meeting at the oval office of the White House on February 4. 2025. In Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“Not [want to] Shake the boat by adding [Trump’s] Demand, “he said.” The question is, will Hamas fulfill the agreement on its part and let three hostages?
“I don’t think Hamas will risk now when this mood is in Washington,” Amidror added. “But we don’t know.”
Only 16 of the 33 hostages that were supposed to be released during the first 42-day phase of the tribute.
After the first week of the Rocky Agreement, which was published by seven hostages, three hostages a week should have been released under the conditions arranged by Hamas and Israel. The last 14 hostages will be announced together on February 22, marking the last week of the first phase.
Bibas family, on the left: Yarden, Ariel, Shiri and Kfir. Yarden released Hamas in February 2025. The fate of his family remains unknown. (Ofri Bibas Levy)
IDF estimated that at least eight hostages scheduled to release in the first phase were killed while in Hamas’s captivity, although the number could be greater as fate Shiri Bibas and her two young boys – Ariel, who was four years old when he was abducted along with his brother Kfir, who was nine months old – remains unbearable by IDF.
Hamas claimed that they were killed by Israeli air attack, although IDF said there was no evidence to support it.
Mediators were to start negotiating the conditions for releasing the remaining 65 hostages earlier this month, although Amidror said he did not believe that they had officially started. At least 26 those who are scheduled to release in the second phase are estimated to be killed.
In recent weeks, Hostages confirmed the fears that they had been tormented, questioned and starving in their time in Hamas captivity. And the state of hostages published last week caused a deviation because many emphasized the similarities in the appearance of three men with pictures of those who survived the Holocaust.
Omutali of Israeli hostage, from left to right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and or Levy, held in Gaza as hostage of October 7, 2023, terrorists took the stage before handing it over to the Red Cross in Deir Al-Balah in the central gauze belt on Saturday, February 8, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Five other Americans remain in captivity, including Edan Alexander (19), an idf soldier, the only remaining American who is still estimated to be alive, although he is not intended for release to the second phase of tribute.
ITay Chen, 19, and Omer Neutra, 22, 22, Hamas killed on October 7, 2023, and their bodies are still held together with Gadi and Judi Haggai, who were also killed during a terrorist attack nearby their kibutz.
Siegel, 65, thanked Trump for the help of securing his release, but invited him to ensure that the truce be withdrawn and said: “Your leadership and strength will ensure that the agreement respect all parties – this is what will enable everyone. .. The hostages to return home to their families, “he added.
