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On Saturday, Hamas posted three Israeli men from the Gaza captivity in Gaza on the eve of the expected replacement of Palestinian prisoners later during the day, because it was a growing coast that took place in its third week.
The men were handed over to the International Red Cross Committee in a detailed ceremony in Deir al-Balah, a relatively undamaged part of Gaza’s belt.
They were performed as hostages from their homes and from the music festival 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.
Ohad Ben Ami, 56, or Levy, 34, and Eli Sharabi, 52 appeared pale and thin as Hamas paradated them on stage with his hard -armed fighters.
Later on Saturday, Israel is required under the terms of tribute to release about 180 Palestinian prisoners. The vast majority was held without trial in Israeli prisons. Less than two dozen of them served their lifelong penalties after being convicted of attacks on the Israelis.
During the 15 months of Israeli war in Gaza, almost 48,000 people were killed in a surrounded tape, according to local officials.
Despite the latest exchange, the fire interruption frame is increasingly under the voltage, and because of the operational hiccups and public statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who put his reluctance to end the war.
On Friday, Hamas delayed a certificate that the replacement would take place on the schedule – as it demanded a dedication agreement – after complaining that Israel did not allow tens of thousands of tents and mobile homes in Gaza.
The entry of these humanitarian supplies is required by an agreement agreement, a person familiar with details, although it is not clear when delivery should have arrived.
The need for shelter became increasingly urgent this week while winter storms were throwing a coastal enclave. About 2 million people are displaced there and live in the wider cities and ruins of their neighborhoods.
The future of the ceasefire was thrown in doubt and Netanyahu’s pledge earlier this week at the White House to continue the war with Hamas, after being told that Donald Trump favored the movement of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza.
The three -speed fire interruption is currently in the transition between the first and second stages, during which negotiations on stopping the war should take place.
In the first six weeks, Hamas was supposed to release 33 Israeli hostages, including all children, women and men over 50 years of age. Until Saturday, he announced the 21st period of six weeks ends in the first week of March.
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. Many are thought to be dead.
Last week, Hamas also published five Thai agricultural workers who were trapped during the cross -border raid that launched the war.
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 withdraw his forces from Gaza.
These conversations were supposed to start this week, but Israel has not yet sent any high-level teams at Qatar or Egypt, which mediate the agreement with the US.
If Netanyahu end the war, he risks the collapse of his ruling right -wing coalition, which includes the ultimate right political party.
Their demands include continuous combat operations and permanent re -occupation of gauze belts. This is spinning with Trump’s plan to now take control of the enclave, expel his Palestinian population and launches a renewal plan that would turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”.
Hamas rejected these proposals, also condemned by the Arab and European United States.
