Five included three Israeli men seized as they attended New Music Festival Others were kidnapped as they visited their family in South Israel when militants broke across the border in 7, 2023. attacks that launched an exquisitive nearly 16-month campaign in Gaza.
The fifth man published, and sixth for liberation later Saturday held Hamas for about a decade because each entered the trigger themselves.
They were committed to the Red Cross into two separate ceremonies in Gaza, performed on the masked phases, armed fighters Hamas in front of hundreds of Palestinians. In the central town Nuseirat, Omer Wenkert, Omer schema fattening And Eliya Cohen were placed together with the fighters – and the shine of the scheme even kissed the militant next to her towards him by his head and blew kisses in the crowd. Then they placed them in red offenses and took them to Israeli troops.
Watching out the edition, Cohena family and friends in Israel singing “Eliya! Eliya! Eliya!” And he cheered when they first saw him. Grandma scheme fattened in joy, scream, “Omer, my joy! My life!” As she saw him. The three were placed in the Red Cross vehicles that then headed for Israel. The Israeli Army said that three were in their custody, and the early medical assessment is forwarded.
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Earlier in the day, two other hostages – identified as Avara Mengista, 38, which were in the 2014. year, and then it was held, and Tal Shoham, 40, 40. October, was placed in vehicles in the Red Cross. After performing on the stage by masked and armed Hamass’s fighters in front of a crowd in the southern city of Rafah. Shortly afterwards, the Israeli army confirmed that two were brought to Israel.
“This is an unforgettable moment, where all emotions are mixed quickly. Our tal is with us,” said Shoham’s family in a statement, referring to the agreement on the release of all those who are still trapped. Shoham’s wife, two small children and three other relatives who have been abducted with him were exempt from exchange in November 2023. years. “There is a possibility of opportunities; we must not miss it.”
Mengisto, Ethiopian-Israel, was held in Gaza from entering his 2014. years. Watching teaches in the Israeli media, the Ministry of Mengista broke out in the Hebrew song, “as they saw him for the first time in more than a decade.
The sixth man is expected to be released on Saturday. HISHAM AL-SAYED, 36, entered Gaza in 2015. year and has been maintained since.
More than 600 Palestinians in Israel will be released in exchange, Palestinian prisoners said on Friday. Prisoners placed on release include 50 lifelong phrases, 60 with long sentences, 47 who were released under the previous hostage-prisoner and 445 Palestinians who have been occupied by Israeli troops in Gaza.
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Refund of SHIRI BIBASA DISTERS, FAMILY SAYS
The latest loading of the hostage is progressing after tensions are mounted through a horrible and cordial dispute running this week when Hamas submitted at first Wrong body for Shiri BibasThe Israeli mother of two young boys hijacked militants.
It remains to be Hamas transferred with their sons’s body On Thursday, they were later determined that they were unidentified Palestinian women. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah promised revenge for “cruel and malicious violation,” while Hamas suggested that it was a mistake.
On Friday night, a small militant group that believed to hold Bibas and her sons – Palestinian Mujaheden Brigade – he said he surrendered another body. On Saturday morning, Bibas’s family said that the Israeli forensic authorities confirmed the remains of hers.
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“We have been looking for security for 16 months, and now that it is here, it does not bring comfort, although we hope to mark the beginning of the closing,” the family said.
The dispute over the identity of the body raised a new suspicion regarding the reciprocation agreement, which was paused by more than 15 months of war, but the end of its first phase is approached. Negotiations on the second phaseIn which Hamas would announce dozens of more hostages in exchange for permanent recircciliaries and Israeli withdrawal, it will probably be even harder.
The first stage of the ceasefire set at the end of next week
Hamas said he would also publish four more bodies next week, completing the first phase of the switch. If that plan is made, Hamas would keep about 60 hostages, which is believed that a half is alive.
Yael Alexander, whose one thinks that the Son of Edan is the last live of the American hostage, said the situation “Nightmares” was.
“If they suddenly decided” Okay, it doesn’t work, let’s stop and it’s, without the edition of the hostage, it will be a disaster for us families, “Alexander said.
The Bibasi family statement said “There is no more important goal” from the release of the remaining hostages.
Hamas said that it would not let the remaining prisoners without permanent interruptions of fire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli Israel. Netanyahu, with Complete support Adut administrationHe says he is dedicated to the destruction of Hamas military and ruling capacities and returned all the hostages, the goals widely seen as mutually exclusive.
Trump Proposal for removing about 2 million Palestinians From Gaza, so I can now own and renew that he has inserted a truce in further doubt. His idea was greeted by Netanyah, but they universally rejected Palestinian and Arab countries.
Trump said on Friday that “slightly surprised” by dismissing the proposal Egypt and Jordan And that he would not impose it.
“I’ll tell you, the way I do it is my plan. I think it’s a plan that really works. But I’m not forcing. I’ll just sit down,” Trump UA Fox News interview.
Israeli military offensive was killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the Gazi Health Ministry, which does not distinguish civilians and fighters. Israel says he killed more than 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence.
Offensive destroyed the huge surfaces of Gaza, reducing the entire neighborhoods in the ruins. At his height, the war displaced 90% of the Gazin population. Many returned to their homes to find anything left and there is no way to renew.
“We had enough war,” Wahiba Muheisen, who lost his wife and three sons and now live in a tent next to her destroyed house, said the news of the CBS. “I lost so much.”
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