2023-11-24 23:19:00
With the beginning of the truce, which also included some attacks, Hamas released 25 hostages
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The 13 Israeli hostages who were released on Friday morning by Hamas, along with 11 other kidnapped people, arrived in Israel, after being transferred from Egypt, following the agreement negotiated with the mediation of Qatar, a few hours after it came into effect. of a four-day truce in the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The hostages arrived in Egypt through the Rafah crossingon the border with the Gaza Strip, and were immediately escorted by Israeli military personnel, the Europa Press news agency reported.
“We greet and hug the kidnapped people who return home. We will continue working together with the authorities to achieve the return of all the kidnapped people” Statement from the Israeli Army
“The abductees who have returned to Israel are escorted by members of the Israeli Defense Forces and are now in Israeli territory. An elite unit of the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israeli Intelligence) accompany them,” the Army said. it’s a statement.
The hostages will continue to be guarded by the military until “they meet their families in the hospitals” to those who are transferred.
“We greet and hug the abductees who return home. We will continue to work together with the authorities to achieve the return of all the abductees,” added the statement, which also asked the Israeli population for “patience, sensitivity and respect for the privacy” of the hostages and their families.
Photo: AFP.
The names and ages of the freed hostages are Channa Katzir (77); Margalit Mozes (77); Yafa Ader (85); Hannah Perry (79); Adina Moshe (72); Danielle Aloni (44) and her daughter Emilia Aloni (9); Ruthie Monder (78); Keren Monder (54) y Ohad Monder (9); Aviv Asher (2); Once Asher (5) y Doron Katz-Asher (34).
At first, information circulated that Danielle Aloni and her daughter Emilia had Argentine nationality, but a source from the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires consulted by Télam said that these people have relatives in Argentina but are not Argentine citizens.
Danielle Aloni (44) and hija Emilia Aloni (9)
Meanwhile, an Israeli political source cited by the Ansa news agency also said that 12 of the 13 Israeli hostages are from Kibbutz Nir Oz, as stated by Television Channel 12. Of the total number of kidnapped people, about 75 belong to that kibbutz and 13 of them are children.
The release of these 13 hostages It occurred 49 days after his kidnappingafter the terrorist attack by Palestinian militiamen on October 7, in which they killed more than 1,200 people, the vast majority of them civilians, and kidnapped more than 240 people.
Of those kidnapped, only four people had been released until this Friday, all of them women.
That attack sparked an open war between Israel and the Islamist group in the Palestinian enclave, where Nearly 15,000 Palestinian deaths were recorded, of which 6,100 were children.according to Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
Apart from the 13 Israeli hostages, the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories confirmed that Ten Thais and one Filipino were releasedwith which 24 people were released “safely,” the international organization said in a statement.
“It is a tremendous relief that after enduring weeks of anguish, they can finally be reunited with their families,” said the CIRC delegation in a message broadcast through the X social network.
It’s a tremendous relief that after enduring weeks of distress, they can finally reunite with their families.
— ICRC in Israel & OT (@ICRC_ilot) November 24, 2023
For his part, the spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, Majed al Ansari, confirmed the 24 releases and also the release of 39 Palestinian prisonersas planned, in “fulfillment of the commitments of the first day of the agreement.”
The details of the pact
The pact establishes as its objective the release of 50 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners, with a ratio of one to three that has been maintained in this first exchange. The Government of Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that it would not complete its part until the first kidnapped people had been released.
The truce began at 7 on Friday (2 in the morning in Argentina) after an intensification of attacks by the Israeli Army on the Gaza Strip.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedin al Qasam brigades, confirmed “a cessation of all military operations” for four days starting this Friday and the exchange of a total of 50 hostages, women and children, in exchange for the release of three Palestinian prisoners for each kidnapped.
Israel confirmed that it received a “first list of names” of hostages and that it is “in contact with all the families.”
Likewise, it released a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners who can be released, including 33 women and 267 minors under 19 years of age.
Truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip / Photo: AFP.
International optimism
The international community welcomed the agreement with optimism, seeing it as a first step towards a lasting ceasefire.
The UN called it an “important step”, but considered that “there is much more to do”indicated the AFP news agency.
The Israeli Government accepted the truce despite internal opposition.
“I often have to choose between a difficult decision and an even more difficult one, and this is particularly the case with hostages,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The EU calls for the truce to be the first step towards the end of the war
The European Union asked this Friday that the truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas that came into force in Gaza be applied “fully”, that it be expanded and constitute the first step towards the end of the war and the “horrible humanitarian situation ” on the fringe.
The High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, “welcomed” the entry into force “finally” of the truce agreed between Israel and Hamas, in a statement replicated by the Europa Press news agency.
“It must be fully implemented as a first step to ending the horrible humanitarian situation in Gaza, and extended for a longer period,” he demanded.
Regarding the situation of those kidnapped by Hamas, with the release of the first 13, Borrell highlighted that “all hostages must be unconditionally released” and reiterated to Hamas that “no one should negotiate with civilian lives.”
“Although the agreement allows limited access to food, water, medicine and fuel for besieged Gazans, the EU says that “Humanitarian aid must reach Gaza civilians without conditions,” he added.
The High Representative took advantage of the statement to “deplore” the high number of civilian deaths in the Israeli offensive against the Strip, in particular the death of thousands of children and women.
“One horror cannot justify another horror. The current spiral must be reversed, for the good of both peoples,” Borrell stressed, adding that the protection of civilians, access to basic services and respect for facilities such as hospitals are an “obligation.” legal” of Israel in its response to Hamas.
After pointing out that military means are not enough, Borrell reiterated that “The only path to sustainable peace, security and prosperity for both Israel and Palestine is the two-state solution.”
In that direction, he called on the international community to “seriously commit” to making it possible.
Among the 267 Palestinian youth under 19 years of age who must be released are 49 members of Hamas.
“We made it a condition that imprisoned Palestinian women and children” be released “in order of seniority” in Israeli prisons, declared Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official.
Most of the prisoners are from the occupied West Bank but five are from the Gaza Stripaccording to an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Fights
In the hours leading up to this temporary ceasefire, The fighting continued all night in this small territory of 360 square kilometers on which Israel has imposed a “total siege” since October 9, cutting off the supply of water, food, electricity and fuel.
The Palestinian Wafa agency reported Israeli bombings that caused “dozens” of deaths in different sectors of Gaza.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is involved in the fighting, reported clashes in the heart of Gaza City in the northern Strip.
An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) driver was killed in the northern Gaza Stripalong with several members of his family, the organization announced this Friday, cited by the Sputnik news agency.
“We are deeply saddened by the killing of our esteemed colleague Abdellatif Ali Moussa, as well as several members of his family, in the northern Gaza Strip. Abdellatif worked as an ICRC driver for around 20 years,” the Committee published in the social network
We express our deepest condolences to the family of Abdellatif Ali Moussa.
A driver who worked for the @ICRC for 20 years.
We repeat, humanitarian workers must be protected. pic.twitter.com/5x64IDWc7C
— IFRC (@ifrc) November 24, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of “killing journalists” who “try to tell the world about the tragedy” that is being experienced in the Gaza Strip.
“Israel is especially killing journalists who try to announce to the world the humanitarian tragedy of Gaza despite all the difficulties. As a result of Israel’s attacks, more than 60 journalists have been killed so far,” Erdogan said during an International Summit of Strategic Communication organized by the Turkish Presidency.
The Government of Egypt, meanwhile, assured that it has “intensified its contacts” with Israel and Hamas to “consolidate” the truce.
“These contacts seek to avoid violations, especially after Israel opened fire around the Indonesian Hospital” in the north of the Strip, according to a statement published by the Egyptian State Information Service through its website.
With the beginning of the truce, the first trucks with humanitarian aid began to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt.
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