The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Hamas handed over the bodies to the Red Cross, adding that the initial identification process began on the Israeli territory. ”
At the same time, the bodies were received on Wednesday, the convoy of the Red Cross carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners left the Israeli preserved prison. The crowds of fan families, friends and supporters of Palestin prisoners gathered in Beituni, staring at the bus view that was on the road.
Israel postpone the edition over 600 Palestinian prisoners From Saturday to the protest of what is called the cruel treatment of hostage during Hamas. The terrorist group called the delay “serious violation” of the fire break and said talks on the second phase are not possible until Palestinians are released. The stalemate threatened to collapse the truce when the current shedding expires the first phase of the contract on Saturday. But late Tuesday, Hamas said that agreement was reached to get rid of the dispute during the Cairo meetings.
Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday that the body release would be executed without a ceremony, unlike the past Hamas editions with stages managed by the events in front of the crowds. Israel, together with the Red Cross and UN officials, called ceremonies degrading for hostages.
Among those who go out, at the beginning of Thursday were hundreds of detainees arrested from Gaza, who are held under suspicion of militia after Hamas on 7. October. They include 445 men, 21 teenagers and one woman who were all arrested after Hamas attacks, according to the lists shared by Palestinian officials who did not specify their age.
Only about 50 Palestinians were released in the occupied Western Bank and East Jerusalem in this circle. Dozens doomed to life due to deadly attacks on the Israelis will be exiled from the Palestinian territories, taken to Egypt at least temporarily until other countries accept them.
The handover will complete both sides of the obligation towards the first phase of the fire, during which Hamas returned 33 hostages, including eight bodies, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
In a short statement earlier on Wednesday, Netanyahu’s office confirmed that the intermediaries reached an agreement, adding that “our four fell hostages would be returned tonight as part of the phase a, in agreed procedure and without Hamas Ceremony.”
Along Thursday, Hamas released the living of Israeli hostages and bodies of dead prisoners in large public ceremonies during which the Israelites were paraded and forced to apply to large crowds. Israel, together with the Red Cross and UN officials, said the ceremonies were degrading hostages, and Israel delayed the scheduled release of prisoners last weekend.
The latest agreement would complete both sides of the first phase of the Fire Police – during which Hamas is intended for returning 33 hostages – including eight bodies – in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
It could also clear the way for a probable return visit to the region of the Conventional Envoy of the White House of Steve Witkoff.
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He said in Tusttor in Washington for the American Jewish Committee, which are representatives of Israeli language, but on the way to negotiations on the next phase of the recircciliaries, and he was ready back to the region, according to the French News agency AFP.
“We make great progress. Israel sends the team immediately as we speak,” Witkoff said, adding that the talks could continue in Cairo or Capital Capital.
Witkoff said he wanted the pages to move in the second phase negotiations, during which all remaining hostages of Hamas will be allowed and negotiating the end of the war. The phase-two conversations should have started before the week, but never.
Ceasefire, which were forbidden by the US, Egypt and Qatar, ended 15 months of heavy fighting caused Hamas’ 7. October 2023, a terrorist attackwho saw militants kill about 1,200 people in Israel and take 251 others like hostages.
Israeli military offensive was killed by over 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-Run Ministry, has dismissed about 90% of the enclave population and desented the territorial infrastructure and the health system. The Ministry of Health does not distinguish between civil and militant victims, but writes over half of dead women and children.
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