Deir Al-Bala, Gaza Strip- The fighters led by Hamas are scheduled to liberate three hostages-all men-on Saturday, and Israel will launch dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile agreement that stopped fighting in the Gaza Strip after more than 15 months of war.
The hostages that will be launched, according to Hamas and Israel, are: Yarden Pepas, 35; Israeli American Keith Siegel, 65; And French -Israeli Calderon, 54. They were all kidnapped during the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
This will be the fourth swap of the hosts of the prisoners since the ceasefire began on January 19. Fifteen hostages and hundreds of prisoners were already released at the time.
Also on Saturday, it is expected that the Palestinians with Gaza will be allowed to leave Egypt through the Rafah crossing. It was the only exit point for the Palestinians during the war before Israel closed it in May. A civilian mission was deployed in the European Union on Friday to prepare for the reopening of the crossing.
The reopening of another major step in the first stage of the ceasefire, which calls for the launch of 33 hostages and about 2000 prisoners, the return of the Palestinians to northern Gaza and the increase in humanitarian aid to the devastating lands.
The imminent release of BIBAS brought the renewed attention to – and anxiety – the fate of his wife, Sherry, and their young buildings. The four of Kibbutz nir oz were arrested.
A video clip of their kidnapping by the armed men showed Sherry wandering in the blanket of her red children – Ariel, 4, and Kafir, 9 months at the time.
KFIR was the smallest of about 250 people who were captured on October 7, and its ordeal soon came to represent the impotence and anger that moved the hostages in Israel, where the Bibas family became a family name.
Hamas said that Sherry was killed in an Israeli air strike. Israel did not confirm this, but a military spokesman recently confessed to great concern about their destinies.
It is believed that Yarden Pepas has been held separately from his family. The photos taken during his kidnapping appear to show him wounded.
Like Bibas, Kalderon was also arrested from Kibbutz nir oz. His children and ex -wife, Hadas, were also taken, but were released during the ceasefire in 2023.
Keith Siegel was originally taken from Chaplin Hill, North Carolina, as a hostage from Kibbutz Kafr Aza, with his wife Aviva Siegel. She was released during the 2023 ceasefire and launched a high -level campaign to liberate Keith and other hostages.
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners include their release by Israel on Saturday, people who spend long sentences and age.
More than 100 hostages were released during the ceasefire for a week in November 2023. About 80 other hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third of them believed dead. Israel says Hamas confirmed that eight out of 33 will be issued in the first stage of the ceasefire.
Israel and enthusiasm were appointed next week to start negotiating the second stage of the ceasefire, which calls for the remaining hostages and expanding the armistice indefinitely. The war can be resumed in early March if an agreement is not reached.
Israel says it is still committed to the destruction of Hamas, even after the armed group re -evaluated its ruling on Gaza within hours of the last ceasefire. The right -wing partner calls on Netanyahu’s alliance to resume the war after the first phase of the ceasefire.
Hamas says it will not launch the remaining hostages without ending the war and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
In the October 7 attack, about 1,200 people were killed, most of whom were civilians. More than 47,000 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air and land war, more than half of them are women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of dead.
The Israeli army says it has killed more than 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence. It blames civil deaths on Hamas because its fighters work in residential neighborhoods.
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2025-02-01 05:42:00
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