Dir al-Bala, Gaza Strip (APP)-Hamas-led militants are ready to liberate dozens of Palestinians’ prisoners on Saturday as part of a critical agreement to Israel, and Israel as part of a critical agreement. Has stopped War in the Gaza Strip.
The collection of extraordinary photos provided by the hostage Family Forum Show or Levy, Eli Sharbi and Ohd Ben Amy, all of which was abducted and brought to Gaza on October 7, 2023.
President Donald Trump Wonderful suggestions To move the Palestinian population out of Gaza, Israel welcomed it but Palestinians strictly rejected And most of the international community, it does not seem to have affected the current phase of the war, which runs until the beginning of March.
But it can make the conversation complicated The second and more difficult phaseWhen Hamas has to release more hostages in exchange for a long -lasting ceasefire. Hamas may be reluctant to liberate more aspects – and lose its bargaining chip – if it believes the United States and Israel are serious about settling the area, whose rights groups say That will be a violation of international law.
According to Hamas and Israel, the hostages issued on Saturday are: Eli Sharbi, 52; Ohhad Ben Amy, 56; And Levi, 34. On October 7, 2023, everyone was abducted during a Hamas -led attack on Israel, which gave birth to war.
Since the beginning of the ceasefire on January 19, the fifth exchange of hostages will be held for prisoners. At present, eighteen hostages and more than 550 Palestinian prisoners have already been liberated.
In the first phase of the ceasefire, the release of 33 hostages and about 2,000 2,000 prisoners, Palestinians return to northern Gaza and increase humanitarian aid in the destructive territory. Last week, the injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza for the first time since May.
Who will be released on Saturday?
Both Sharbi and Ben Amy were taken hostage from Cabbatz Beer, One of the most affected farming parties In the Hamas attack. Levy was abducted Nova Music FestivalWhere he was seeking refuge in a safe on the arrival of the militants.
183 of 183 Palestinian prisoners released by Israeli on Saturday, including 18 people, are being sentenced to life imprisonment for allegations of life -threatening attacks, detained after the October 7 attack. All are men, who are 20 to 61 years old.
Although Israel considers them a terrorist, the Palestinians see them as the heroes of Israeli occupation. Practically every Palestinian has a Friend, relative or acquaintance Who has been imprisoned.
In November 2023, more than 100 hostages were released during a week -long ceasefire. More than 70 are still in Gaza, and it is believed that at least one -third of them was killed in the initial attack or died in prison. Israel says Hamas has confirmed that eight of the 33 released in the first phase of the ceasefire have died.
The seizure fire is held but the next step is uncertain
Hamas fighters held positions on Saturday, February 1, 2025, before the release of the hostages in the southern Gaza Strip, Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip. Photo/Obedel Karim, File)
It is unclear whether Israel and Hamas have begun to talk The second step The ceasefire, which calls for the rest of the hostages and extends the trips indefinitely. If no agreement is reached, the war can resume at the beginning of March.
Israel says Hamas is obliged to destroy, even after the militant group Re -considered its rule over Gaza Within the latest ceasefire hours. An important right -wing partners in Netanyahu’s alliance are demanding a ceasefire to demand a resumption after the first phase of the ceasefire.
Hamas says it will not release the rest of the hostages without the end of the war and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
In the October 7 attack, which launched the war, about 1, 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliation and ground war, more than half of which are women and children, who do not say how many of the dead were militants. –
The Israeli military says it killed more than 17,000 fighters without providing evidence. Hamas is accused of civilian deaths because its fighters work in residential palaces.
Senior militants in Palestinian prisoners prepared for release
Five of the 72 security prisoners released on Saturday, five from East Jerusalem, 14 from the Gaza Strip and 53 from the occupied West Bank. Seven have to be transferred to Egypt before deportation.
A total of 47 prisoners in the West Bank will be moved from Offer Prison, and to Palestinian custody at Betonia Crossing Point near Ramullah’s administrative center, where several relatives, friends and supporters were welcoming the heroes.
Palestinian security prisoners were detained for crimes from bombings to militant organizations, in some cases that decades ago.
The 49 -year -old Eid Abu Shakhadam, who was closed for about 21 years for involvement of Hamas militants in the crowded areas, who killed dozens of Israelis during the Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s. It included a notorious suicide bus bomb blast in the southern Israeli desert city of Beir Shiba in 2004, killing 16 people, including a 4 -year -old child.
There is another Jamal al -Tawil, who is eliminating Ramullah, a prominent Hamas politician in the occupied West Bank and former mayor of Albara village.
It has spent and out of the Israeli prison in almost two decades and beyond, the army made its last arrest for alleged participation in the Hamas -led riots in the West Bank in 2021 and trying to enter Hamas leadership. Reported. It was transferred to an administrative detention, repeatedly renewed within a six -month period, in which the suspects are kept without charge or trial.
Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in the Central War of 1967. The Palestinians want all three areas for their future state.
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