On Saturday, Hamas gave three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the Deir al-Bala of Central Gaza, as live television showed.
The militant group published Ohad Ben Ami (56) and Eli Sharabi (52), both of whom were taken hostage during the cross -border attack on October 7, 2023 by Kibbutz Be’eri as hostage.
In return, Israel began to release 183 Palestinian prisoners, some for participation in attacks in which dozens of people killed and imprisoned in Gaza 18 years after the war.
A bus with Palestinians, which were released from the Israel’s Ofer prison, came to Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, as living film materials showed.
Dozens of masked and armed Hamas fighters were used in Deir Al-Balah in the center of Gaza at the place where the group handed over to the Israeli hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Human quantities gathered at the location, where the ICRC vehicles were waiting to collect the hostages and to transport them to Israeli armed forces in Gaza, which they will then bring to Israel.
For families of the hostages who have been held in Inkommunicado in Gaza for more than a year, the waiting was a roller coaster ride of fear and hope when the moments of reunion were pulled nearby.
“I can’t even start the emotions, the excitement to describe how happy we are, that it is finally close to be over” three -year -old son.
“We are waiting to hug him, to see Almog (Levy’s son) and hug his father again.”
Other hostages have also returned violently. Sharabis two teenage daughters and his wife, born in Great Britain, were killed in the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where one of ten inhabitants was killed.
“We count the minutes, the seconds and we just want him to be here,” said Astrid Dafan-van Dien, a friend of Sharabi, “although it will be very difficult because of Liann (Sharabi’s wife) and the girls.”
The exchange is the latest in a series of swaps since the ceasefire began on January 19. So far, 13 Israeli and five Thai hostages during the Hamas attack have been freed, together with 583 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners.
Despite swallowups, a 42-day ceasefire and a hostage of prison for prison has put into force with the support and mediation of Egypt and mediation of US and Qatar since he came into force almost three weeks ago.
US President Donald Trump has proposed to be relocated to Palestinians to transform Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. Larry Garber, a former American agency for international development mission director for West Bank Gaza, says that Trump’s words are “dangerous” because they could affect phase 3 of the Ceasefire deal, including the implementation of the reconstruction plan in Gaza.
But the fears that the deal could collapse before all hostages are free, since the surprise request of US President Donald Trump for Palestinians from Gaza Strip and thus handed over the enclave to the United States and can develop into the “Riviera of the Middle East . “
The Arab states and Palestinian groups rejected the proposal to say the critics of being ethnic cleaning.
Alaa Al-HasanatA 25-year-old soldier with Gazas Distribute Brigades, spoke too CBC In Deir Al-Datethat say “Hamas Is back and stronger than before “and the Palestinians will not go.
“We lived for 475 days of genocide with regard to Trump and the question of shift … but we will stay in Gaza,” he said.
Israel has preferred the genocide Hamas Attack.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Trump’s intervention and his defense minister ordered the military to make plans to enable Palestinians who wanted to leave Gaza.
As part of the ceasefire contract, 33 Israeli children, women and sick, wounded and older men are to be released in an initial phase in an initial phase for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners.
Negotiations on a second phase began this week to return the remaining hostages and to arrange a complete withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Gaza in order to prepare for a final end to the war.
The men armed by the Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people and confiscated more than 250 as hostages.
In response to this, Israel started an air and soil war in Gaza Strip, which, according to the Gaza health authorities, killed more than 47,000 Palestinians and destroyed a large part of the tight enclaves.
