Hamás and Israel will carry out the fourth exchange of hostages for prisoners from the entry into force of the high fire that stopped more than fifteen months of war in the Gaza Strip. Among the three hostages that will be released by the Palestinian Islamist movement Figure Yarden Bibas, the father of the two minor kidnapped in the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 that triggered the conflict. The fate of their children Ariel and Kfir, who had four and less than a year when they were kidnapped, and that of his wife Shiri, of Argentine origin, is uncertain.
Hamas said in November 2023 that they died in an Israeli bombing, but the Army of the Hebrew State has not confirmed that extreme and many cling to the hope that they will continue alive. The liberation will coincide with the arrival in Israel of the Argentine Foreign Minister, Gerardo Werthein, who plans to meet with relatives of the nine Argentine-Israeli who remain kidnapped in Gaza. In his attack against Israel in October 2023, Hamas militiamen kidnapped 251 people. Of these, 79 are still captive, although the Israeli army gives 34 for dead.
Since the beginning of the truce on January 19, Hamas has released 15 hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, many of them women and children. This Saturday, Israel will release 183 prisoners, according to the Palestinian prison club group, more than double the 90s initially announced.
