Trump says we will occupy the war -torn Gaza Strip
President Donald Trump said during a news conference with the Prime Minister of Israel that the United States should “occupy” the war -torn Gaza Strip.
Gaza/Jerusalem/Cairo February 8 (Reuters) – Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose gut appearance surprised the Israelis, while Israel had a 15 -end end. In the latest phase, dozens of Palestinians began to liberate. Month war in Gaza.
During the cross -border Hamas -led attack on October 7, 2023, both Ben Amy and Eli Sharbi were taken hostage by the Cabbuts Bery, and Levi, who was abducted by the Nova Music Festival, was attracted to Hamas Podium that day. Gun
The three men looked thin, weak and yellow, and worse than the 18 hostages who were previously released under the war last month.
“He looked like a skeleton, was terrifying to see,” Ohhad Ben Amy’s mother -in -law, Michel Cohen told Channel 13 News when she looked at the handover ceremony in Hamas’s direction, in which the veil The hostages who were answering questions arising through the cover were also included. As a human being, he was standing everywhere as militants equipped with automatic rifles.
In another Hamas show, which has paraded the fighters during the last release, dozens of militants deployed in central Gaza when it handed over the hostages to the Red Cross International Committee. He was then opened in Israeli forces in ICRC vehicles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the eyes of the weak hostages were astonishing and would be focused on.
Israeli President Ishaq Herzag described the release ceremony as blasphemous and vicious. “Such a crime seems to be a crime against humanity,” he said.
The hostage Families Forum said that during the Holocaust, photographs of the three hostages gave rise to photographs of those survived Nazi detention camps. He said, “We have to remove all the hostages from hell.”
Palestinians have complained of misconduct
In exchange for the release of hostages, Israel is liberating 183 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom have been convicted of being involved. The attack that killed dozens of During the war, 111 were detained in Gaza along with people in Gaza.
In Ramullah, the Israeli -occupied West Bank welcomed a bus carrying 42 independent Palestinian prisoners.
Among the independent people, Eid Abu Shakidim, who was sentenced to 18 life imprisonment in Israel, was charged with masterminding the suicide attacks in exchange for the killing of Israeli Hamas leaders.
“Today, I am a waterproof,” Shakidim told reporters on arrival at Ramullah, when the crowd rejoiced.
Many prisoners appeared in the health of free health and some complained of misconduct. “This occupation has humiliated us for more than a year,” Shakidim said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Medical Service said it had taken six of the 42 prisoners released to the hospital.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the dispute.
Rights groups have reported Serious abuse of Palestinians Israeli custody since the beginning of the Gaza War. The Israeli military is investigating several incidents of alleged rape, but has denied allegations of organized abuse in its detention facilities.
Hurtful return.
Some hostages face painful return. Sharbi’s two teenage daughters and his British -born wife, Cabbatz Bei, were killed in a Hamas attack, where one of the 10 residents was killed. After losing his wife in the attack, Levy will be re -attached to her three -year -old son.
The latest in a series of exchange exchanges, which has so far returned 13 Israeli and five Thai hostages and released 583 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Despite the hiccups, the first 42 -day phase of the mediation ceasefire through Washington, Cairo and Doha has been held since its implementation on January 19.
But it is feared that the agreement could end before US President Donald Trump’s surprise demand for Palestinians is free from all hostages. Moved from Gaza And the enclave should be handed over to the United States and prepared in the “Middle East’s Raera”.
Arab states and Palestinian groups have rejected Trump’s proposal, which critics say would be equivalent to ethnicity. Hamas said on Saturday that his armed display during the hostage handover showed that it could not be excluded from Gaza’s arrangements after the war.
However, Netanyahu welcomed Trump’s intervention and his defense minister ordered the military to allow Palestinians who wanted Gaza to do so.
Under the ceasefire agreement, 33 Israeli children, women and sick, wounded and old men have to be released during the first phase of about 2,000 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
The second phase began this week, which aims to return the rest of the hostages and agree on the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza to prepare for the end of the war.
According to Israeli Tales, Hamas -led gunmen attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 people as hostages.
In response, Israel took place in Gaza and launched a ground war in which more than 47,000 Palestinians were killed, according to Gaza health officials, and most of the enclave was destroyed.
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