The Islamist group Hamas announced on Tuesday that he will release on Saturday, February 22, the last six hostages live Included in the first phase of the Fuego Alto Agreement, and on Thursday it will deliver four lifeless bodies, including those of the family Bibas, confirmed the head of his negotiating delegation, Jalil Al Hague.
Among the six hostages are Ethiopian-Israelí Ebra mangest and Bedouino Hisham al Sayed, that remained kidnapped in Gaza for a decade -2014 and 2015 respectively-, after entering the enclave voluntarily.
Each will be exchanged by 77 Palestinian prisonersas stipulated in the agreement, including 47 of the Millar that were released in the 2011 Shalit Agreement and newly arrested.
In addition, Hamas will deliver four host -bodies to Israel on Thursday, including those of Shiri Bibas, of Argentine origin, and their two children, Ariel and Kfir, of two and five years respectively. Next week, according to the Hague, the other four remaining bodies of the first phase will be delivered.
Kfir It was the youngest hostage kidnapped on October 7, 2023when I was only 9 months old, from Kibutz Nir Oz, just 1.5 kilometers from the dividing with Gaza. Already in November 2023, Hamas’s armed arm He said the three had died in Israeli bombings in the stripsomething that Israel could not confirm.
Children’s father, Israeli Yarden Bibas, was released alive on February 1 After 16 months in captivity. Al Hague said that all these liberations, which would end the exchanges agreed in the first phase, seek to make this stage “A success” and “prepare to talk about the second phase.”
The Hague accused the Israeli government, led by Benjamín Netanyahu, of “procrastinar” and try to evade the humanitarian part of the high fire agreement, such as the entrance of stores and prefabricated houses.
The Islamist leader assured that Hamas continues to work with the mediating countries (and especially Egypt and Qatar) To force Israel to allow the entry of machinery Heavy to delayed and sufficient shelters to Gaza, as the Fire Agreement contemplates.
The president brought together the security cabinet of his government yesterday to discuss how to address the second phase of the agreement, which should have already begun to negotiate in early February, and implies The end of war and the liberation of the rest of living hostages.
