There was a doubt about whether Saturday’s hostage handover would take place from Monday. At the beginning of the week, Hamas announced that he was suspending the release of the kidnapped until an appeal, because Israel did not comply with the ceasefire agreement. According to the Palestinian movement Israel, it does not allow the entrance to the Gaza zone to building machinery, which would be used to remove rubble or motorhomes. However, on Thursday Hamas announced that the ceasefires of Katar and Egypt had guaranteed him to act to eliminate these problems. Hamas therefore stated that the transmission will take place in the agreed terms.
Hamas today announced the names of the hostages, which he and his ally of Palestinian Islamic Jihad intends to release. Among other things, the Sagui Dekl-Chen, which also has American citizenship, Alexander Trufanov, who also has Russian citizenship, and Jair Horn, whose family comes from Argentina, is to get to Sagui, who also has American citizenship.
Hamas also announced that Israel should release 369 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday exchange. Among them should be 36 people sentenced to life imprisonment.
Israel Hamas threatened to restore the fighting unless he had three more hostages on Saturday. Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said on Thursday that The Israeli Army is preparing to start fighting unless three hostages are released by Saturday noon local timeAFP wrote.
To whom they have released so far
An agreement on a ceasefire, which began to apply 19 January, counts on the stop for 42 days, by dismissing 33 hostages held in the Gaza Strip and hundreds of Palestinians from Israeli prisons. The text of the agreement according to the press also includes a commitment to strengthen supplies to the Gaza band, where the humanitarian situation has deteriorated significantly due to the conflict. In some areas, according to UN agencies, there was even a famine.
Under this Agreement, Hamas has released 16 Israeli hostages and five Thais. More than 700 Palestinians have received Israeli prison.
The ceasefire interrupted the struggles that lasted since October last year. At that time, the conflict caused an attack by Hamas and its allies on Israeli territory around the Gaza zone, in which, according to Israel, died of 1,200 people. According to Thursday’s announcement, at least 48,239 people died due to the Israeli retaliation offensive in the Gaza zone.