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On Saturday, Hamas released three more Israeli men from the captivity in Gaza, after a wicked four -week trial almost collapsed in the brisam week.
The Israelis are handed over to the International Red Cross Committee in a complex stored ceremony in Khan Younis, mostly destroyed city – and Hamasa SportHold – in southern Gazi.
They took from their homes to Kibbutz Nir Oz during the attack of the Palestinian militant group on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed, according to Israeli officials.
Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troofanov and Iair Horn appeared, at least physically, in a better form than the previous group of men’s hostages published last weekend. During the ceremony, the Hamas fighters showed weapons and uniforms that captured from Israeli military bases during the 2023 cross -border attacks.
Israel should release more than 350 Palestinian prisoners later on Saturday under trial conditions.
The agreement almost crashed earlier this week after Hamas claimed that Israel had violated the ceasefire by blocking the entry into the gauze of heavy machines to clear the ruins and mobile homes to place hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian civilians.
Hamas threatened to delay hostage release if Israel does not make it easier to enter the equipment as needed in accordance with the fire interruption agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by diverting the trunk near the border of Gaza in the south of Israel and promising to restart the attack against Hamas if the release does not happen as scheduled.
In the following days, the Arab media broadcast images of some heavy machines that entered Egypt, and Hamas agreed to continue with graded hostages on Friday.
The need for refuge in Gaza became increasingly urgent this week as winter storms were throwing a coastal enclave. About 2 million people are displaced and lived in the wider cities and ruins of their neighborhoods.
The vast majority of Palestinian prisoners scheduled to release on Saturday were held without trial in Israeli prisons after being detained in Gaza during the 15 months of war. More than 48,000 people have been killed in a surrounded tape since the beginning of the war, according to local officials.
The three -stage ceasefire is in the transitional period between the first and second phases, during which negotiations on stopping the war should take place.
In the first period of six weeks-which ends in early March-he is obliged to release 33 Israeli hostages, including all children, women and men over 50. Until Saturday, 24 were published by 24. Many of the remaining 73 hostages are thought to be dead.
The group originally took about 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. She published about 120 during a short break of fire in November 2023. In exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas will begin to release the men’s soldiers who have captured and handed over the bodies of dead hostages if the negotiations manage to turn a temporary truce into a permanent truce. This would require Israel to permanently withdraw his forces from Gaza.
These conversations should start last week, but Israel has not yet sent any high-level teams at Qatar or Egypt, which mediate the agreement with the US.
The frame of the fire breaks is increasingly under the voltage due to operational quarrels and because of the repeated statements of US President Donald Trump to intend to take over Gaza.
Trump’s proposal, which could result in a mass expulsion of some 2.3 million Palestinian civilians, strengthened Netanyahu, who was increasingly hesitating to end the war with Hamas.
Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah in the White House this week and reiterated his claim that Jordan and Egypt would take over in refugees, despite a wide condemnation of a plan in the Arab world.
