At the fourth, for the moment, he defeated her. For the first time since the beginning of the Alto El Fuego in Gaza, on January 19, Israel and Hamás a exchange with hardly any setbacks. First of the hour, the Islamist movement has released two Israeli hostages from Jan Yunis, in the south, and another in the port of Gaza. He has repeated the staging of the hostages greeting from a stage and receiving a certificate and a bag with gifts, but they have not seen, for which the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, paralyzed for hours the release of the Palestinian prisoners. For the first time since the invasion in Gaza, in October 2023, half a hundred children and adolescents (including heart and cancer sick) are already waiting at Rafah’s crossing to cross Egypt to receive treatment.
Already in the morning the 183 Palestinian prisoners, of which 111 were arrested by the Israeli military during the invasion of Gaza, have begun to arrive in the West City of Ramala. The reception ceremony has become a holiday parade of elderly or seasoned inmates that had been in Israeli and that, in their first words, have appealed to the unity of the different Palestinian factions to end the conflict. The hard conditions in the cells have also described, especially in the.
The International Red Cross Committee has reminded the parties for the “responsibility to ensure that deliveries are carried out with certainty and dignity” and that they are the ones who agree on the details of the operation. It was an answer to the images of the Israeli prison service delivering to the Red Cross to the prisoners handcuffed with their hands above the heads and a bracelet with the phrase: “The eternal people [judío] Never forget. ” The Penitentiary Service, which depends on the Ministry of Interior, has replied that its employees “deal with the worst of Israel’s enemies and until the last moment in Israeli soil will be treated under penitentiary regime.”
The hostages that have regained freedom are the Franco-Israelí Offer Kalderon, 54; Israeli Yarden Bibas, 35; and the American-Israelí Keith Siegel, 65. The forum of hostages and missing, the main organization of the country that represents their families and presses by bringing the agreement to the end, has described its release, after 484 days of captivity, of “Ray of light in the dark” that offers hope. “However, he also reminds us that 79 hostages remain in Gaza, waiting to be saved. We will not rest until each phase of this agreement is completed and all the hostages are returned: the living to meet with their loved ones and those killed for an appropriate and worthy burial, ”he recalled.
Siegel’s family has also issued a statement in which he thanks the release to the US president Donald Trump. The exchange, which had been on the table of Benjamín Netanyahu for months, only saw the light two days before Trump – who had been threatening with a “hell” for months if he returned to the White House without a stop the fire – returned to the White House , on January 20.
The theatrical ceremony of Kalderon and Bibas, in a new attempt to Hamas to exhibit its control of Gaza, took place in Jan Yunis, where on Thursday a crowd surrounded the release of two Israeli and five Thai, generating the reprisals of Netanyahu. He only unlocked the release after receiving guarantees that similar scenes would not be repeated in future releases, as this has been this Saturday. Also in the first two Canjes Netanyahu he took reprisals. The most important, to keep tens of thousands of displaced from Gaza for one day to see the state of their homes in the north, the most devastated area.
With this delivery, the total number of hostages delivered by Hamas and the Islamic jihad amounts to 18, including five Thai who were not part of the exchange and were released without counterparts this Thursday.
In Rafah’s newcomer crossing, the UN World Health Organization (, in a Trump decision on its first day at the White House) also organizes a bus transfer of unpublished Palestinian patients in the 15 months of invasion, Thanks to the high fire pact. Its general director, Tedros Adhanom ghebreyesus, has asked for more “medical evacuations by all possible ways” because “between 12,000 and 14,000 people still need urgent specialized medical attention outside gaza.”
“My will is stronger than prison bars”
In Ramala, administrative capital of the West Bank, under Israeli occupation, all the released prisoners have been widely cheered when descending from the Red Cross bus before noon next to the museum in honor of the poet, who died in 2008 and symbol of the Palestinian cause. Some could not even move forward by their own feet. They have been raised in volandas by their relatives to the shout of “Allah is great!” In the midst of a huge stir of hundreds of people who wanted to approach kisses and hugs.
One of them is Ali Hassan, 55 and originally from Qalilia (Bank), which had a perpetual chain penalty for more 20 years and has passed 22 imprisoned. Several young people have behaved in procession as if it were a saint to the family vehicle. There, after gaining elbows, one of the first kisses are from his wife, Sihrab Hassa, 46, who wore the traditional Palestinian suit of embroidered colorists.
“My feelings are indescribable, I can’t express my happiness. My body is exhausted and weak, but my will is stronger than the bars of the prison, ”said Hassan as soon as he introduced into the car seat in the car. “Our message to people is to join. Prisoners who are still inside live in extremely difficult conditions. Since October 7, 2023 we live in a cemetery, ”he added. Hassan has assured that he has left prison with a weight of 55 kilos and entered with 110. More than a decade ago.
And he has launched a: “God give them strength. We expect the unit for Gaza and the West Bank to become a single indivisible entity. Through our unit, we can achieve all our goals, nothing can break when we stay together. ” One of those who has entertained him is his son Fira, 33, who details: “The last time I visited my father was two years ago.” The visits were prohibited once the current contest began almost 16 months ago. “My joy on this historic day is beyond words. We thank all those who contributed to the prison exchange agreement, and we hope that everyone will be released, ”added exultant.
Minutes before Ali Hassan arrived in Ramala, his wife and sister said that this Fatah activist, a majority force of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP), was arrested accused of having participated in the murder of several Israeli military. After taking about five years detained, mis -treated back pain ended up leaving him disabled and needs a wheelchair that does not bring when he is released.
Two of his nephews, of a young age and children also of an ancient imprisoned, were waiting for him too. One of them, Fayeq, 12, explained that he has only seen his uncle throughout his life three times through a glass on prison visits. Family members traveled on Friday since Qalilia and have spent the night in Ramala in fear of being trapped in the.
Surrounded by a love without control, Tierra also Nassar Zidan, 63, another of those who appears much older than he says. About him weighed a 37 -year sentence, of which he has served 23. He has denounced “months of abuse” in jail and “extremely difficult conditions and food shortage.” “My health has suffered a lot due to poor nutrition,” he says. “We have resisted and stayed strong to recover our freedom, but the conditions within prisons are extremely complicated.” “I am overwhelmed by joy, by finally breathing airs of freedom. This is really a historic day. ”
Also the conditions in the cells have been “very hard” of hunger and abuse for Mohammed al-Dahnoun de Aboud, 44 years old and sentenced to two perpetual chains plus 17 years, of which he has served 21. “We bring a message from the Interior of the prisons to the people: the militia and military audacity that has been seen in Gaza must be answered with courage and political boldness to achieve the unity of the entire Palestinian people in the framework of ANP ”.
Of the total of 183 Palestinians released this Saturday, 111 were arrested during this military campaign of Israeli troops within Gaza, as far as they have been transferred. These are people who are not involved, according to Israel authorities, in the attack of October 7, 2023.
Freedom thanks to the exchange for Israeli hostages of Alto El Fuego has reached Wael Samara, 54 and originally from the Refugee Camp of Al Amari (Bank), when they barely had 40 days left to resume freedom after a penalty of 22 years, almost the same period he had between bars. “My feelings are indescribable, I consider that this day is my new birthday. I cannot express the greatness of this moment with words. The last 16 months in prison were much more difficult than the 22 years he had already fulfilled, ”he has settled while receiving kisses from men and women in the middle of the microphones and the cameras of the reporters.
