Hamas was released after five of the six expected Israeli hostages were released from prison in Gaza on Saturday.
Avera Mengäthu, a 39-year-old Ethiopian and Israeli man, described by his family as a mental disorder, was detained since 2014, while 40-year-old Tal Shoham, who was elaborately staged in Rafa, southern Gaza. He was released at a ceremony. Red Cross.
Shortly afterwards, 27-year-old Elijah Cohen (22), 22- and 23-year-old Omer Wenkart (23), looked pale and thin in the Nusai Rat in central Gaza, but some of the hostages released this month. It was released in a better condition than that.
The men were paraded onto the stage by armed Hamas fighters, and despite repeated appeals for private and dignity by the assembled crowd, pressured to smile.
Hisham al-Seid, a 36-year-old Palestinian Bedouin with Israeli nationality, is also known as a mentally ill person, and is scheduled to be released individually later on Saturday. Mengistu and Al-Sayed were detained by Hamas for almost ten years after wandering in Gaza of their own agreement.
Others were captured on October 7, 2023 from a music festival in which hundreds of Israel were killed by Palestinian extremist groups.
The Israeli army confirmed their release and said all five had been transported to southern Israel by the Red Cross.
In exchange for the release of all six, Israel includes life or long sentences of service, including hundreds and 110 people who were detained without accusations or trial after being convicted in military prison for violence against Israelis. , is set to release 602 Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas, including today’s swap, has also seen more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners and the potential to boost political status among Palestinians in Gaza despite the devastating consequences of assault on Israel. In exchange, 29 hostages will be released, with 29 hostages dead.
The six are the last living hostages to be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first phase of the ceasefire, and are expected to close with the release of four additional agencies on Thursday.
In the second phase, where negotiations have yet to begin in earnest, the enduring 15-month war was in exchange for the release of around 60 hostages, including many who are estimated to be dead. We were able to come to an end.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right alliance has opposed the long-term ceasefire and is demanding that the troops resume war with Hamas.
After Hamas accused Israel of retaining humanitarian aid permits, the first six-week phase of collapse approached a collapse, urging interventions from the US, Egypt and Qatar, staying on track. As a mobile home and tent for evacuated Palestinians.
At the latest flashpoint, Hamas announced an unidentified body earlier this week in place of that of Silvivas, the 32-year-old Israeli mother who was also captured in the October 7 attack. I did. Their bodies were released earlier this week.
Later Friday, Hamas released a second body, and was later identified by Israeli forensic pathologists as KFIR and Ariel’s mother, Vivas. Hamas accused them of handing over the misdemeanor within the crushed Palestinian enclave of enclaves.
In Israel, the Vivas family capture – the father of the children was vividly released in February in the first phase of the exchange – and the atrocities of Hamas in the attacks that sparked the war in Gaza, and Israeli authorities It became both a symbol in the attack that caused it to not protect. they.
Israeli forces said Friday that the autopsy showed that, as Hamas said since November 2023, they were not killed in Israeli airstrikes, but both children were killed while being taken prisoner. Ta.
The rear of Israeli Army spokesman Admiral Daniel Hagali said on Friday that the two boys were shot but instead were killed “with naked hands” by Hamas. “Then they committed horrific acts to hide these atrocities,” Hagarli added.
Despite the first stage of the ceasefire, Israel sent a low-level negotiation team to Cairo for talks in the second stage, but so far there has been little progress. Hamas has shown an eagerness to continue negotiations in the second phase.
Hamas killed at least 1,200 people in Israel in the cross-border raid on October 7th. Israeli retaliation killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, Gaza health authorities left the enclave, home to more than 2.3 million Palestinians, in a handful of humanitarian disasters.
