2023-11-25 15:10:00
Second day of truce and hostage exchange. Photo: AFP.
Israel to release a total of 42 Palestinian prisoners and the Islamist movement Hamas must do the same with 14 hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip, within the framework of the second day of the temporary truce and seven weeks after the start of the war.
Early this Saturday, the Israeli Prison Service received the list of the 42 Palestinian prisoners who will be released.
The Palestinians will be transferred to Ofer prison (an Israeli prison, although located in the occupied West Bank) for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to perform medical examinations before being releasedreported the Europa Press news agency.
The four-day extendable agreement, reached on Wednesday, provides in total for the release of 50 Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza and 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
The Israeli authorities explained that the Palestinian prisoners will be released once the group of hostages released by Hamas have left the Gaza Strip and are correctly identified, according to information collected by the local newspaper The Times of Israel.
He four-day extendable agreementachieved on Wednesday by Qatar with the support of the United States and Egypt, provides in total for the release of 50 Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza and 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
On Friday, armed and uniformed Hamas members handed over 24 hostages (13 Israelis, ten Thais and one Filipino) to the ICRC to be taken to Israel via Egypt.
At first, information circulated that two of those released, Danielle Aloni and her daughter Emilia, had Argentine nationality, but a fountain from the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires consulted by Télam said that these people have relatives in Argentina, but they are not citizens of the country.
Photo: AFP.
On your side, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners from its prisons.
In the occupied West Bank, scenes of joy accompanied the return of the freed prisoners, welcomed as “heroes” in some areas, with fireworks, Palestinian and Hamas movement flags, reported the AFP news agency.
In East Jerusalem, also occupied by Israel, celebrations were prohibited.
“It’s just the beginning, but so far it’s going well,” the American president said on Friday, Joe Bidenwho judged that there were “real possibilities” of prolonging the agreed truce.
In the occupied West Bank, scenes of joy accompanied the return of the freed prisoners, welcomed as “heroes” with fireworks, Palestinian and Hamas flags.
“There are approximately 215 hostages left in Gaza,” said Israeli army spokesman Doron Spielman. “In many cases we don’t know if they are alive or dead,” he admitted.
The release of the 13 hostages in the Gaza Strip It occurred 49 days after his kidnapping, following the 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, including twenty Argentines. .
That attack, which this Saturday marks seven weeks, provoked an open war between Israel and the Islamist group in the Palestinian enclave, where up to nearly 15,000 deaths were recorded, of which 6,100 were children, according to Hamas, which governs the Strip. from Gaza.
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