A delicate truste entered their second week on Sunday with a delicate trus to end the war in Gaza, after four Israeli hostages and about 200 Palestinian prisoners were released for joyful scenes.
While Israel and Hamas on Saturday completed their second hostage-Canninger swap under the deal of ceasefire, a final-minute dispute blocked the expected return of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to the destroyed north of the Gaza strip.
Israel announced that it would stop the path of Palestinians in the north, until a civil woman is held hostage, which the Prime Minister’s Office said that “was going to be released on Saturday” Walk free on Saturday.
A Hamas source told AFP that the woman, Arbel Yehud, will be released as part of the third swap set for next Saturday “.
The controversy highlighted concerns in the next stages of the three-phase truss deal, which came into effect on 19 January.
The second phase of the deal is to look at the conversation for a permanent end for the war, but analysts have warned the transaction’s multi-phase nature and the risk of collapse due to deep mistrust between Israel and Hamas.
During the first six -week phase, 33 hostages should be freed in staggered release in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
A total of seven hostages and 289 Palestinians have been released under the deal so far, along with a Jordan prisoner free by Israel.
Wait to return home
In Gaza, the Palestinian police prevented hundreds of displaced people from reaching the Israeli-controlled route in the north, where Israeli tanks and armored vehicles were blocking the road.
Rafiq Sabh, Beat is waiting to return to Lahiya, said: “We want to go back, even if our houses are destroyed. We miss our homes a lot.”
Suh said that she would wait for the north to go back to “even if we have to sleep from the outpost”.
Arabic Language spokesperson Arabic Adrai said that Ghazan was not allowed to contact the Netzerim Corridor, through which they have to pass to reach their homes in the north, “until it is declared open until it is declared open Is”.
“These instructions will be in effect until the next notice and” Hamas does not fulfill his commitments “, said, Edrai said, Israel claims that Hamas was in violation of the agreement by not handing over Jehud.
Among those who tried to return on Saturday were 26 -year -old Samiya Hales of Gaza City.
“So far, I don’t know if my house is still standing or destroyed. I don’t know if my mother is alive or dead. I am not able to contact her for a month,” she said.
The Trus has brought food, fuel, drugs, and other assistance to Gaza surrounded by debris, but the United Nations says that “human condition remains serious”.
‘Till the last mortgage’
The four hostages released on Saturday, all women soldiers were re -introduced with their families and rushed to the hospital, where a doctor said they were in a stable position.
Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, 87 remained in the Gaza, including 34, the military says that the military says.
Some Israel feared the fate of the remaining hostages, saying that the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was opposed by far-flung members as a climate of the ceasefire.
Hours after Saturday’s hostage release, thousands of protesters collected in Tel Aviv, as they have done weekly throughout the war, to pressurize the authorities to secure the release of the hostages.
An AFP correspondent said the protesters chant in support of the return of all the remaining hostages, in which the first phase was not slate for release during the first phase of the Trus.
“Family can’t breathe. We are under immense stress … We will do everything, we will fight till the end, until the last hostage” returned, Ifat Kalderan said, whose cousin’s cousin still still in Gaza Has organized
The niece of the hostage Gadi Mojes, the Efhit Machikwa, said that “Our hearts are full of joy for the four hostages who have returned to us today, but we are very worried for our loved ones who are still held in terrorist captivity.”
As a result of the October 7, 2023 attack, according to AFP Tally, based on official Israeli data, 1,210 people died, mostly citizens.
According to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-Run Region, the anti-Anti-aggressive Israel’s retrorship has killed at least 47,283 people in Gaza, which considers the United Nations reliable.
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