Three Israeli men, who were taken captive in the Gaza Strip for 16 months, were released by Hamas on Saturday, while Israel began to free dozens of Palestinians as part of the Trus deal. The day began in Dir al-Balah in Gaza, where Hamas handed over to the hostages-Ohd Ben Ami, or Levi and Ellie alcoholic-red cross authorities, the co-fifth group freed him under a delicate Gaza ceasefire.
Done and disorientation, all three were forced to address the crowd gathered at their handover ceremony by their prisoners. A banner on the edge of the stage for exchanges declared a “total win” for Hamas in Hebrew and bore Israeli military vehicles destroyed and rusty images.
Three Israelis of Hamas’s terrorist organization, Eli Shabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Levi, were taken hostage in Gaza for 16 months.
This is the fifth exchange of Israeli hostages for the Palestinians who have been jailed in Israel.
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He was later handed over to the International Committee of Red Cross, which was to take him to Israeli forces in Gaza. His release was returned to Israel by his families, a video shared by the Israle -War Room.
“He looked like a skeleton, it was terrible to see,” Ohad Ben Amy’s mother-in-law, Mishhal Cohen, told Channel 13 News that she used to watch Hamas-directed handover ceremony.
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Israel President Isaac Herzog also condemned the treatment of Israeli hostages as a “crime against humanity”, as men were paraded on stage.
“This is the one that resembles a crime against humanity! The whole world should look directly the position, or, and Ellie – returning after 491 days of hell, hungry, weak and pain – exploitation in a cynical and cruel spectacle The killer is being done.
About Israeli hostages freed in Trus Swap
On October 7, 2023, both Ami and Shabi were taken hostage from Kibutz Beri, led by Hamas, led by Hamas, led by Hamas, a Hamas led by Hamas-led Hamas, while Levy was the Nova Music that day Nova Music The festival was kidnapped.
Ohad Ben Ami – Kibutz Biri was kidnapped from his house with his wife Raz Ben Ami. Images have broadcast on social media, in which they have been seized in T-shirts and underwear. His wife, Ben Ami, who has dual Israeli and German citizenship, was released in November 2023 during a week’s Trus.
Elli Shabi -Shebi, who would be 53 years old in February, was at her home in Kibutz Biri with his British-birth-birth wife and two teenage daughters, when Hamas attacked it on 7 October 2023. Armed people shot their dog before closing the family. In their safe room and set it on fire. The bodies of his wife and two daughters were later identified.
He was taken to Gaza with his brother Yosi. The Israeli army said earlier last year that Yosi was killed and his body was in Hamas’s hands in Gaza.
Or levy -Lavi and his wife Inav Levi went to the Nova Music Festival, left their two-year-old son Almog with their grandparents. Usually inseparable couple, who met in high school, tried to hide from Hamas attackers with Route 232, the only way to the festival.
The platform of hostage and missing families said in a statement, “When he clashed with bullets shortly after his arrival, he sought a concrete safe room, which was later known as ‘The Death Bunker’ .
Israel released Palestinian prisoners
In return for the release of hostages, the media office of Hamas-Run prisoners said that Israel was freed 183 Palestinian prisoners, some convicts the convicts of involvement in attacks, who killed dozens of people, as well as war During the time 111 were taken into custody in Gaza.
“This release is a new milestone in the ongoing struggle to free all prisoners,” the statement said.
Before today, at least 383 prisoners were freed as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which came into force last month.
What does the deal say?
Since the Trus was effective on January 19, 16 Israel and double-national hostages have been freed, as there are five Thais outside the agreement.
A total of 33 hostages, out of which eight Israel, are dead, are ready to be released during the first 42-day phase of the deal in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
The fate of the remaining children held in Gaza – KFIR Bibas and their brother Ariel – as well as their mother Shiri Bibas, remain unknown.
