In the second exchange of Israeli hostages by Palestinian prisoners, four military women were released.
Israel today accused the Islamite group Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, the day the second Israelite hostages were made by Palestinian prisoners, and four military women were released.
“Hamas did not fulfill their first obligations to free Israelite civilian women,” said Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari, in a brief statement shortly after confirmation that the hostages had entered Israeli territory.
Already on Friday night, when Hamas announced that it would free four women soldiers, who were kidnapped from the military base of Nahal Oz, on October 7, 2023, Israel expressed his disagreement, claiming that One of the conditions of the agreement was that civilians would have priority in liberation.
However, it guarantees the Spanish news agency EF by referring to having access to the documents, no clause mentions this priority.
According to the French agency AFP, Israel conditions the return of the southern displaced Palestinians to the north of Gaza to the liberation of a hostage, Arbel Yehud, to whom two Hamas leaders told AFP shortly after being “in good health”.
First phase of hostage release
Of the 33 people who will be released in the first phase of ceasefire in Gaza, seven are women, five of whom were military (one was not released today) and two are civilians.
The civilians are 33 -year -old Shiri Silberman and Arbel Yehud, 29.
In recent days, the Israeli press said that Israel tried to press for Arbel Yehud to be one of the women released today, and this morning, the Prime Minister’s Office has issued a note to say that Telavive will not allow Palestinians to return to the north of Gaza While that hostage is not released.
In November 2023, Palestinian terrorist group Jihad Islamic claimed that one of the civilians, Shiri Silberman, who was kidnapped along with her husband, Yarden Bibas, and her sons, Ariel and Kfir, 5 and 2, died in an attack Israelite, but the army never confirmed the information.
In a television statement after the release of the hostages, Hagari admitted, however, that the army is “deeply concerned” about the fate of the two children.
The four hostages released today were Liri Albag, 19, and Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy, 20.
The four military personnel were displayed, smiling and waving by Hamas militants on a stage in Palestinian Square, in the city of Gaza, where thousands of people came together, and was then delivered to the Red Cross vehicles.
Israel confirmed that the hostages were fine, shortly after delivery to the Red Cross.
Ceasefire tore off on the 19th
The first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza He entered into force on Sunday, January 19. On the first day they were
Hamas discloses list of 200 Palestinian prisoners to Israel to release
Hamas released the list of 200 Palestinian prisoners who will be released by Israel in exchange for these four Israeli soldiers
The 200 Palestinians include longtime and others with long penalties, as explained by SIC Henrique Cymerman.
According to a list released by Hamas, 200 prisoners or detainees Palestinian, 121 served perpetual penalties, 70 will be expelled from Gaza and Bomboy, but it was not indicated where.
The most notorious militants being released include Mohammad Odeh, 52, and Wael Qassim, 54both from East Jerusalem, theCused to make a series of deadly attacks on Hamas against Israelitesincluding a bomber attack at a Café at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002, which killed nine people, including five US citizens.
Israel will have to retreat from the Netzarim corridor
After the exchange, Israel is expected to start retreating from the Netzarim corridor — an east-west road that divides Gaza into two parts — and allows the Palestinians displaced in the South to return to their old homes in the north for the first time Since the beginning of the war.
The Palestinians will only be able to move north on foot, as the circulation of vehicles is restricted until the end of the ceasefire.
The Hamas Interior Ministry said that the displaced Palestinians could return to the north of Gaza from Sunday.
In a statement on Saturday, the ministry, which supervises police forces, said the Palestinians could move between the south and northern Gaza on foot along the Rashid coastal road.
It caused the death of 1,210 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 91 remain hostage in Gaza, 34 of which to be killed, according to the Israeli army. Others were given as killed by Hamas, but without confirmation or proof of life.
After the Hamas attack, I, which caused more than 47,000 civilians, mostly civilians and a humanitarian disaster, destabilizing the entire Middle East region.
