Hamas said on Friday that it will issue four Israeli women soldiers hostage from October 7, 2023 the next day, under a ceasefire deal in another exchange, which has stopped the Gaza war.
Israel confirmed that she had found a list of the names of the prisoners, and the hostage and missing family stage campaign group later nominated her as Kareena Arerev, Daniila Gilboa, Nama Levi and Liri Albagh.
Albag turned 19 in captivity, while other women are now 20 years old.
During Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, all were captives from the Gaza border, just one kilometer (less than a mile), the Nahl Oz military base.
If all go away according to the plan, after Hamas leaving four women on Saturday, Israel should free a group of Palestinian prisoners, although neither the side specified how much they will be.
Palestinian sources told AFP that the exchange could be before noon. According to Israel Gel Service, some of them will be released for Gaza, returning to the West Bank occupied with the rest.
This exchange is part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza War, which made effective on Sunday and freed three women and freed 90 Palestinian prisoners.
The delicate Trus purpose is to pave the way for the permanent end of the war in Gaza.
Abu Obida, spokesperson of Ezedin al-Kasam Brigade of Hamas’s Armed Wing, said on Telegram that “as part of the exchange deal of prisoners, Kasam Brigade decided to release four women soldiers yesterday”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed that he had got its name through intermediaries.
Basem Name, a member of Hamas’s political bureau located in Qatar, told the AFP on Friday that the Palestinians displaced for Southern Gaza from the war should be able to return to the north of the destroyed region after release.
“An Egyptian committee will look after the implementation of this part of the agreement on the ground,” he said.
While the displaced Ghazan craved to return home after more than a year of the war, many only found the debris where the houses were standing once.
“Even if we think about returning, there is no place to install our tents due to destruction for us,” a displaced woman, AFP said.
– ‘Eat away on us’ –
Broketed ceasefire agreement after months of Qatar, Egypt and the United States should be implemented in three stages after months of useless conversation.
US President Donald Trump, who claimed a credit for the agreement, stated on Thursday that he believed that “should be a deal”.
First, during the 42-day phase, 33 hostages believe that is still alive, should return in exchange for about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
The next phase should look at the interaction for the more permanent end to the war, while the final stage should look at the reconstruction of the Gaza and the return of the dead bodies of the dead hostages.
On Sunday, the first swap saw the release of Israeli’s hostage Emily Demary, Romi Gonon and Dorne Sinebachar.
Hours later, 90 Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli jails, most of them women and minors.
In Israel, the families of hostages are afraid that the families of the hostages are afraid of over 15 months in Gaza may collapse.
“Anxiety and fear that the deal will not be applied to the end, we are all eating away,” said the mother of the hostage Nimrod Cohen Vicky Cohen.
“Even these days, there are elements in the government who are doing everything in their power to do torpedo in the second phase.”
Some far-flung members of Netanyahu’s governing alliance opposed the deal, Firebrand Itmar Ben Gwir expelled his party out of the alliance in protest.
– Lebanese return delay –
During its 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas militants took 251 hostages, of which 91 are built in Gaza, with 34 Israeli army confirmed that they have died.
The attack, the deadliest in the history of Israel, as a result of AFP Tally, based on the official Israeli data, 1,210 people died, mostly citizens.
According to the Ministry of Health of Hamas-Run Region, the majority citizens, an anti-Repilee response in Gaza killed at least 47,283 people, who consider the United Nations to be reliable.
The war created a major regional crisis, with Israel’s northern neighbor Lebanon dragged into conflict for more than a year.
Hamas, just a day after Hamas staged his attack on Southern Israel, its Lebanese colleague Hizbullah began a low-intensity attacks in the north of the country, leading to a daily exchange of fire between the two sides.
The enmity then increased in a full -scale war, which was brought to a stop on the 27 November ceasefire.
Under the agreement, the Israeli forces were to withdraw from the southern Lebanon by 26 January, while the Lebanese army and the United Nations peacekeepers were deployed in the region.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah was to withdraw the north of the Litani River in South Lebanon and destroyed its military property in the region.
But on Friday, Israel said that its return would continue beyond Sunday.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, “Since the ceasefire agreement has not yet been fully implemented by the Lebanese state, the gradual return process will continue in full coordination with the United States.”
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