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Hamas freed two Israeli hostages on Saturday, since the fourth exchange of fragile truck in Gaza began.
Six weeks of truce is first phase A complex three-instance agreement ejected by mediators under the leadership of the United States, which caused the hope of ending the 15-month war in Gaza, which became the most deadly circle of struggle in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Israeli government said that two men – Yarden Bibas and Ofer Kalderon – are handed over to their forces in Gaza, who will bring them out of the enclave.
The third Israeli hostage should also be published. In exchange, Israel was later on Saturday 183 Palestinian prisoners.
In a further turning point in a two -week tribute, a group of wounded Palestinians is expected to leave Gaza later on Saturday through the transition of Rafah to Egypt, which has been closed since the Israeli forces seized control of it during their offensive in the end of May.
The war was launched by Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023. On southern Israel, during which militants killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials and seized 250 hostages.
Israel responded with a devastating attack that killed more than 47,000 people, according to Palestinian officials, reduced most of the gauze to the ruins and encouraged a humanitarian disaster in the enclave.
About 100 hostages were released during the previous trial of the war at the end of 2023, while the Israeli forces saved a handful. Israel also took over the bodies of several hostages.
In total, Hamas should release 33 hostages in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in the first phase of the agreement. Israeli officials said earlier this week that Hamas had informed that eight out of 33 – involved in women, children, sick and elderly – dead.
During the second phase – through which Israel and Hamas should start negotiating in the coming days – Hamas is intended to release all the remaining living hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian detainees, the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the permanent end to the end of the war.
The third and last phases will include the return of the remaining bodies of the hostages who died and the renewal of gauze.
