Hamas freed two hostages and had to publish four more from Gaza on Saturday to have hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and prisoners after Israel confirmed that a temporary body was hostage by Shiri Bibas.
The 40 -year -old valley Shoham and Avera Mengistu (39) were handed over to the Red Cross in the Rafah of the southern Gaza after they were led onto a stage by armed militants of Hamas. Four others were expected to be released shortly afterwards in the central gaza.
The six hostages, which are to be published on Saturday, are the last living hostages of a 33 -year -old group who are to be released in the first stage of the ceasefire contract that came into force on January 19.
Four of the hostages, Shoham, Eliya Cohen, 27, Omer Shem Tov (22) and Omer Wenkert (23), were confiscated by the Hamas gunmen during their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Shoham was kidnapped together with his wife and two children from Kibbutz Be’eri, who were released in a short ceasefire in November 2023. The other three were taken from the nearby Nova Music Festival.
Two more, Hisham al-Sayed, 36 and Mengistu, were captured by Hamas since they separated Gaza separately under unexplained circumstances.
Hundreds of Israelis gathered in the rain in the so -called Hostse’s Square in Tel Aviv and cheered when they saw the publication on a large screen.
Further south, more people lined the street near the border between Gaza Strip to welcome the convoy with the freed prisoners.
The Hamas-staged publications, which included public ceremonies, in which prisoners are on stage and made some to speak, were confronted with critical criticism, including the United Nations that denounced the “parading of hostages”.
Hamas rejected the criticism on Saturday and described the ceremonies as the solemn show of the Palestinian unity.
In return, Israel is expected to publish 602 Palestinian prisoners and prisoners who are recorded in his prisons at the last stage of a ceasefire contract in his prisons.
This includes 445 Gazans, who were rounded off by Israeli armed forces during the war, as well as dozens of convicts who, according to the Hamas, serve lengthy or lifelong terms.
During a hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel on Thursday, Israel received the remains of the Ariel and Kfir Bibas brothers, who were only four years old and were nine months old when they were recorded on October 7, 2023. They should be sent home with their mother’s body, Shiri Bibas – but the false remains were handed over to Israel. Israel’s ambassador in Canada Iddo Moed joins power and politics to discuss how this affects the continued ceasefire.
The fragile ceasefire in the war between Israel and the militant of Hamas was threatened by the false identification of a body released on Thursday as that of Bibas, who was kidnapped with her two young sons and her husband at the Hamas attack on October 7.
In the late Friday, Hamas handed over another body that had confirmed her family than her.
“Last night our Shiri was returned home,” said the family in a statement in which she was identified by the Israel’s Institute for Forensic Medicine.
The Bibas family was an emblem of Israel’s trauma that day. The false identification of the remains of Shiri Bibas and the staged handover of their coffins by the Hamas outraged Israelis. Her husband Yarden, granted and separated from his family, was released on February 1st.
The Israeli military said, secret service estimates and forensic analysis of the bodies of the 10 month old Kfir Bibas and his four -year -old brother Ariel showed that both had been deliberately killed by their kidnappers “in the cold blood”.
Israel’s Army Radio quoted the forensic conclusions, said Bibas was probably killed with her children.
According to Hamas, the Bibas family was killed by an Israeli air raid. A group called Mujaheddin Brigaden said that she captured the family in the family, which was confirmed by the Israeli military.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to “pay the full price” because he had not returned the body, but he no longer had to remove himself from the armistice that came into force on January 19.
However, the Hamas, which Israel has accused itself of violating the ceasefire by blocking the vital aid supplies in Gaza strips, officially informed Israel about the names of the hostages that are to be published on Saturday in a sign in which the handover continues would.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will pay Hamas to ensure that Shiri Bibas did not release the Geisel Shiri Bibas as agreed. Israeli specialists said that one of four bodies that were handed over by Hamas on Thursday was an unidentified woman and not a bibas. Hamas said it would examine the possibility of an error or that human remains were mixed due to Israeli air strikes.
The ceasefire has brought a break in the fights, but the prospects for a final end to the war remain unclear. Hamas has tried to demonstrate that despite severe war losses in the Gaza Strip, it remains under control.
The militant group triggered the conflict through its attack on Israeli communities, which according to Israel took 1,200 and 251 hostages.
The Israeli campaign killed at least 48,000 people, say the Palestinian health authorities and reduced a large part of the enclaves to debris, with a few hundreds of thousands in temporary shelters and auxiliary cars.
Both sides have stated that they intend to start talks in a second stage, which the mediators say, the return of around 60 remaining hostages, which are assumed that they are alive and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
However, the hopes for a deal were clouded by the future of Gaza Stripes, which is shocked by shock in the region about the proposal of US President Donald Trump to clarify the enclave of the Palestinians and to be under US control as a Riviera-style resort Room, have been deepened.
