Hamas has taken advantage of the release ceremony of three Israeli civilian hostages this Saturday in Gaza to launch several messages to the United States and Israel after throughout the week between mutual reproaches. “No emigration, except Jerusalem,” the Islamist group has shown on the stage of the ceremony to make clear its refusal to the deportations of Gazatis, Donald Trump. As on previous occasions, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, has issued complaints and accused Hamas of “trying To all the kidnapped.
The American president seems to have accepted that Hamas has not released all the kidnapped at noon this Saturday, as he demanded. After this deadline has been fulfilled without having left more than those three, Trump has affirmed that “Israel will now have to decide what is going to do” and that “the United States will support the decision you make!”, According to a publication in its Truth social network profile.
In any case, the signed is maintained and, as part of the sixth exchange for Palestinian prisoners of Israeli prisons planned in the truce, Alexander Trufanov, 29 years old; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, and Yair Horn, 46. The three are civilians taken as hostages on October 7, 2023. In parallel, Israel has released 369 prisoners, of which 333 were captured in Gaza during the present war. None participated in the attacks of October 7, 2023 and will be returned to that territory throughout the day. 24 of them will be deported to Egypt.
Within that kind of propaganda war that the parties fight, the Israel authorities have equipped the Palestinian prisoners before releasing them with t -shirts in which David’s star appears, a Jewish symbol; a phrase in Arabic (“we neither forget, nor forgive”); and the logo of secret services. The images have been taken with inmates in a position of submission. Until now, the prisoners used to leave the cells dressed in a prison uniform, a gray tracksuit. Hundreds of relatives and spontaneous in the middle of jubilation scenes. Four of them have had to be admitted to be treated, according to the red crescent.
The act of liberation of captives in the strip has been carried out in Jan Yunis, in the southern area. As in previous processes, after the protocol firm of documents, the group has been transferred to the International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR), which has transferred them to Israeli territory, a few kilometers. In the ceremony, which took place in front of some buildings destroyed during the war, militiamen of the armed arms of Hamas and Islamic jihad have participated, the group that retained Trufanov. Some have even looked proud of the Israeli army with which they would have done during the contest.
On the one hand, with that phrase (“not emigration except Jerusalem”) that warns that the expulsion abroad of the Palestinians is not an option. It was read in one of the canvases of the stand where it has staged the delivery of the captives to the International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR), which has transferred them to Israeli territory. That phrase refers to, from the city in the Palestinian cause
On the other, Hamas presses the mediators so that the high -fire agreement, which entered into force on January 19, the signed and progress towards the second phase is fulfilled, whose expected duration is six weeks, as well as the first. In this sense, the kidnapped Yair Horn has received in that same stage from the militiamen of the Islamist group a sand watch in which you could read: “Time is running out.” Attached to the Peana, a photo of the hostage Matan Zangauker, which is not on the list of the 33 scheduled to be delivered in the first phase of the truce, along with his mother, Einav, who reported last September that they had received a Test of life of your child.
“A very hard position”
A few hours before the exchange, the US president had reiterated his personal position (“I think they should free everyone,” that is, the 73 that today are still in Gaza) and had assured that he would adopt “a different position” and “very hard”, but also added that “it depends on what Netanyahu does. Then the merit of his warning has been arrogated that “the doors of hell would open” if Hamas did not give all the hostages this Saturday, despite having been resolved only with the delivery of three.
Netanyahu has also put the credit in the threat of the use of the military force: “Hamas reversed and the hostages were released, due to the concentration of our forces and around Gaza and the clear and unequivocal declaration of the President Trump ”. As in previous weeks, the prime minister in a statement, shortly after the arrival of hostages to Israeli territory.
He has accused the Islamist group of “trying to violate the agreement” by creating “a false crisis with unfounded statements”, in reference to the statement that Israel had been breaking what was agreed since the beginning of Alto El Fuego, which led them to announce that they frozen the Out of this Saturday. “We are working in total coordination with the United States to rescue all our hostages, both the living and the fallen, as quickly as possible, and we are fully prepared for what comes later, in all aspects,” he warns threatening to the possibility of Retomar the war after the departure of the kidnapped, despite the fact that the second phase of the truce plans to conclude with a definitive fire. In the note, it makes it clear that it goes hand in hand with Washington more than the other two intermediary countries, Qatar and Egypt.
The exrehén Trufanov was in the hands of Islamic jihad, along with whose combatants has posed on stage, while the other two, Dekel-Chen and Horn, did it surrounded by members of Hamas, the group that kept them retained. The three have had to speak in public from the stage – something that the president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has described as a “despicable and cynical” ceremony – before receiving some gifts, including the aforementioned sand watch. Dekel-Chen has thanked those who have led to his release and has claimed the Israeli government to maintain the truce agreement “until the second and third stage.” Horn has repeated that “time is running out” and Trufanov has remembered the rest of the kidnapped who are still captive.
The three released in the strip on this occasion have dual nationality. Argentina, in the case of Yair Horn, whose 38 -year -old brother, is still captive in Gaza and is not included in the list of 33 that will be in the first phase and among which there are eight dead. Trufanov, known for Sasha’s diminutive, also has Russian nationality. His mother, his grandmother and his girlfriend, also kidnapped, were released in the first high fire, in November 2023, while the militiamen killed their father. As for Dekel-Chen, who has an American passport and tried to deal with the attackers, he has been a father during captivity after his wife was saved on October 7, 2023 and two months later gave birth to his Third child in common. The militiamen have given him a gold coin as a gift for his fatherhood, within the framework of the propaganda war.
Both Trump and Netanyahu have been questioning in recent days that he is going to go to the second stage of Alto El Fuego, whose Israel negotiation has blocked for almost two weeks, when he should have begun, according to the terms of the high fire. It is the one that foresees the release of all the hostages that remain alive and a definitive cessation of the attacks. The toughest wing of the Israeli executive claims to resume war without waiting for the release of all captives, which are both civil and military.
The US president has also proposed the deportation of the inhabitants of the strip abroad before Washington, with the approval of Israel, is done with the control of the Palestinian Mediterranean enclave to turn it into a holiday area. The idea has and has been particularly applauded by the ultra -nationalist sector of the government coalition, which asks for the ethnic cleaning of the Gazaties and recolonizing the strip, where there were Jewish settlements until 2005. It has been, instead, rejected by the Palestinians and , almost generalized, by the international community.
