Palestinian activists began to present three Israeli hostages in Gaza Thursday in exchange for 110 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the last stage of a cease-fire contract.
An Israeli soldier, Agam Berger, wearing an olive green uniform, was led through a narrow ally between the highly damaged buildings and on lots of rubble in Jabalia in the north of Gaza before being put back to the Red Cross.
“Our daughter is strong, faithful and courageous,” said a declaration by her family. “Now Agam and our family can start the healing process, but the recovery is not complete as long as not all hostages go home.”
The other two hostages, Gadi Moses, 80 years old, and Arbel Yahoud, 29, were embellished with each other in the presence of armed man masked in black uniforms on another exchange site, in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza , a video published by Hamas Ally Islamic Jihad shown. Moses and Yahoud were both removed from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the assault led by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Yahoud was then shown given to the Red Cross surrounded by a booming crowd and armed Palestinian activists on the site of the house bombed in the southern city of Gaza of Khan Younis of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, who been killed by Israel.
The Israelis gathered in what became known as Square Outages in Tel Aviv, where people campaigned in the name of the hostages that are held in Gaza, encouraging and crying by looking at the exit on a giant screen. The hostages will be transported to the hospital for treatment.
Dozens of Palestinians to return to the West Bank, Gaza
They were the first of the eight hostages to be released on Thursday. Five Thai nationals, not yet officially identified, were to be released within the framework of a separate agreement.
Dozens of activists have confused the site in a powerful reminder that Hamas, which Israel has promised to erase, always has a strong presence in Gaza despite the heavy bombing of the most advanced army of the Middle East on more than 15 months.
Mohamed El Saife, an independent videographer working for CBC News, returns to what remains of his family home in the north of Gaza after Israeli forces began to withdraw from a main corridor under the terms of an agreement on A ceasefire in a 15-month war.
Palestinian prisoners, who include 30 minors and certain members of Palestinian groups convicted of their involvement in deadly attacks in Israel, will be taken to the West Bank or Gaza later in the day.
Three Israeli civilians and four soldiers – all women – have been released so far in the current ceasefire, which started on January 19. In return, Israel published 290 Palestinian condemned and detainees.
More than 250 hostages were removed during the attack on Hamas in Israel.
About half was released the following month at the previous truce alone, and others were recovered dead or alive during the military campaign of Israel in Gaza, which made tens of thousands of Palestinians who died and transformed The tiny coastal enclave in a wasteland of rubble.
Israel still lists 90 captives in Gaza, with around thirty dead in the absence.
The American envoy of the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and went to Gaza as the ceasefire of Israel-Hamas Tenu. Witcoff would be the first American official to visit Gaza in at least 15 years.
Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after the attack led by Hamas on October 7, when activists killed 1,200 people and brought back more than 250 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli accounts. Since then, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to health authorities.
After the release last Sunday of the Romi Gonen hostages, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher and the recovery of the body of an Israeli soldier who disappeared for a decade, Israel says that 94 Israelis and foreign remaining in Gaza, although it is not clear How many of them are still alive.
