Israel and Hamas will begin indirect negotiations on a second stage of the Gaza ceasefire, the officials said on Tuesday when the Palestinian militant group said that it would be handed over to other hostages, including the corpses of two children.
Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza, said that the bodies of four hostages, including that of the Bibas family, would be returned on Thursday. Six living hostages would follow on Saturday.
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that a deal was achieved in Cairo to secure the publication of six living hostages on Saturday, four deceased hostages on Thursday and four more next week, but shortly before naming one of them.
An Israeli civil servant said deceased hostages in Israel will undergo identification before they are named.
Negotiations for the second phase of the deal should begin on February 4 – but Qatar, who taught together with Egypt and the United States between the pages – said that the talks have not yet officially started.
“It will happen this week,” the Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told a press conference in Jerusalem.
In the past few weeks, Israel had given mixed signals on his commitment in the next stage of the three -phase ceasefire, which on January 19, with the goal stated, came into force to end the Gaza strip permanently.
Mother, 2 children allegedly killed at the end of 2023
The Bibas family, including Kfir Bibas, who was less than a year old than he was kidnapped, and his brother Ariel at that time was one of the Israeli hostages attacked on October 7, 2023 on October 7, 2023 from Hamas from October 7, 2023.
Her father Yarden Bibas was released this month, but her mother Shiri was not. The Hamas said at the end of 2023 that Shiri and the children were killed by Israeli bombing.
Israel has not confirmed her death and only said that it was very worried about her life. After the announcement of Hamas, she appealed to the privacy of the hostage families.
The militants of the Hamas published three male Israeli hostages on Saturday, and Israeli forces began to release hundreds of prisoners in return after Egyptian and Qataric mediators contributed to avert a patient situation that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.7460415.
The family said it was “in turbulence” since Hamas’s announcement. “Until we receive a final confirmation, our trip is not over yet,” says a explanation.
The identity of the fourth deceased Geisel has not yet been announced, but the families of the six living hostages, which are to be released on Saturday, have been informed.
Eliyah Cohen, 27, Tal Shoham, 40, Omer Shem Tov, 22, Omer Wenkert, 23 were taken hostage on October 7th. Two other, Hisham al-Sayed, 36, and Avera Mengistu (39), crossed the Gaza of about a decade regardless of Gaza and since then have been held since then.
Negotiations on the 2nd phase to start
The initial phase of the ceasefire contract, which includes a 42-day ceasefire and the return of 33 Israeli hostages for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and prisoners, remained despite a series of setbacks and allegations due to violations.
Negotiations on the second stage, which aim to secure the publication of the remaining 64 hostages, will be difficult, however, since they contain problems such as the administration of the post-war gaza, which are large gaps between the pages.
“We will not accept the continued presence of Hamas or another terrorist organization in Gaza,” said Saar.
But he added that Israel, if the negotiations are constructive, remain committed and extend the ceasefire.
“If we will see that there is a constructive dialogue with a possible horizon to reach an agreement (then), we will work this time frame longer,” said Saar.
Remaining hostages that are assumed that they are dead
So far, 19 Israeli hostages have been returned to the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and prisoners. If the six living hostages and four corpses are returned this week, as announced, four more remain. Based on information from Hamas, all four are considered dead.
In October 2023, the hostages were recorded in the cross -border attack by Hamas, in which, according to Israeli days, around 1,200 people were killed in South Israel.
According to the Palestinian health officers, Israel’s retaliation measures have killed more than 48,000 Palestinians who have assigned a large part of the enclave and replaced hundreds of thousands.
An Israeli civil servant said that Israel would also enable mobile homes for the Gazans, which are forced to protect against the winter weather under the ruins of the 15 months of the Israeli bombing. Construction equipment was allowed in the southern city of Rafah on Tuesday.
Hamas has accused Israel of delaying the delivery and threatened to postpone the publication of hostages until the problem was resolved.
The fragile ceasefire company was also overshadowed by US President Donald Trump by the Palestinians to take off and take over gaza strip as development on the water under US control.
The plan was rejected by Palestinian groups, Arab states and western allies in Washington, who say that this is synonymous for ethnic cleaning. The Israeli leaders have argued that Gazans who want to leave the destroyed enclave can do so.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said on Monday that he would set up a new unit in his ministry, which is working on the relief of the exit of the residents of Gaza Strip who want to move to a third country after checking a first plan.
