Hamas releases two hostages because the first ceasefire ends

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Hamas released the first two of the expected six Israeli hostages, which should be released from CAU on Saturday, because the non -standard cessation of fire is approaching the end of the first stage.

Avera Mengistu, a 39-Year-old Ethiopian-ISRAELI man descripted by his family as mentally ill and held sin International Committee of the Red Cross.

Mengist was conducted by Hamas after he wandered in the gas at will, while Shoha was captured during the Palestinian militants attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli military confirmed their release, saying that the Red Cross was transported to southern Israel.

27th Elia Cohen, 27, Amer Sham Tsa, 22 and Omer Wenkert, 23, should come out later on Saturday, along with the 36-year-old Hisham al-Sayed since 2015.

In exchange for the exit of all six, Israel should release 600 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds without charge and trial, and 110 who are serving life or long terms after being convicted in military prisons for violence against Israelis.

Including today’s swap, Hamas released 29 hostages, four of them dead, in exchange for more than 1600 Palestinian prisoners.

Six is ​​the last of the living hostages to be replaced by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first ceasefire, which should end on Thursday with the exit of four additional bodies.

The second stage for which the negotiations are still beginning to see could see the constant end of the 15 months of the war in exchange for the exit of about 60 or the other hostages, which included the soldiers -the man, as well as many, allegedly died.

The six weeks of the first stage approached the collapse, which caused interference with the US, Egypt and Qatar to help keep it on the way.

At the last point of Flashpoint, Hamas released an unidentified organ instead of Bibbage’s width, 32-year-old Israeli mother, whose two young children were also captured as a result of the attacks on October 7. Their bodies were released earlier this week.

Late on Friday, Hamas released a second body, after which Israeli court pathologists like Bibas, Mother Kfir and Ariel. Hamas accused chaos of destroyed Palestinian enclave of transferring the wrong body.

In Israel, a sunset of the Bibaban family – the father of children was released in February at the first stage of exchanges – became a symbol of Hamas’s cruelty in the attack that caused war on gas and the failure of the Israeli authorities to defend them.

The Israeli military said on Friday that the exposures showed that both children were killed during their captivity rather than killed by an Israeli airline, as Hamas said since November 2023.

“Terrorists did not shoot two young boys – they killed them with their bare hands,” said the Israeli Military Admiral Daniel Hagar. “Subsequently, they committed terrible actions to cover these atrocities.”

Despite the rich first stage of the ceasefire, Israel sent a low -level talks to Cairo to negotiate in the second stage, but there has been little progress. Hamas indicated his willingness to continue negotiations in the second stage.

On October 7, Hamas killed at least 1,200 people in Israel in a cross -border raid and took about 250 hostages, local officials say. Almost 50,000 Palestinians were killed in Israel, health officials said in Gaza and left the enclave – more than 2.3 million Palestinians live in a humanitarian catastrophe.