Tel Aviv – A female in Israeli hostage, Agam Berger, 20 Israel and Hamas began. Two other Israelis, including an 80 -year -old man, and five Thai hostages were be released Later in the day.
Berger was released among the ruins of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. It was the last hostage of an entirely armed Israeli military unit that worked to monitor Gaza.
Seven women in the unit were taken hostage during the Hamas October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, who saw activists kill around 1,200 people and take a total of 251 other hostages.
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Israel’s military response to the attack killed more than 47,300 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas, and decimated Palestinian territory, moving almost its entire population and provoking a large -scale humanitarian crisis .
Israel is expected to release 110 Palestinian prisoners as part of the exchange on Thursday.
Berger was escorted by activists out of the back of a building destroyed in Jabalia. Bearing an outfit that looked like green military fatigue, it was given to the members of the Red Cross.
Two other Israeli hostages, Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, the oldest of the remaining hostages, should be transferred to the Red Cross later Thursday in the southern city of Gaza of Khan Younis. Yehoud and Moïse were detained by the militant group Islamic Jihad, allied in Hamas.
A huge crowd met Thursday in Khan Younis to attend the transmission, which should take place near the home of The deceased commander of Hamas Yahya Sinwar. Dozens of militants armed in Hamas and Islamic jihad paraded in the region.
Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, Yehoud should have been among the Four freed women During the second exchange of January 24. After this release last weekend, the terms of the agreement stipulated that Israel would release a certain number of Palestinian prisoners from prisons and allowed the Palestinians to return home in northern Gaza, through the netzarim corridor, Who, who, who was from Netzarim, who, who was through the corridor of Netzarim, who, who has who, who, who was from Netzarim, who, in the North divides the north and south of the ‘enclave.
When Yehoud was not among the people freed last weekend, Israel said that this would not allow the Palestinians to cross the Corridor of Netzarim. After a rapid negotiation process, Hamas agreed to release previously unforeseen hostages on Thursday, to include Yehoud.
In anticipation of publication and according to the new agreement, Israel began to allow the Palestinians to cross The Netzarim corridor in the north of Gaza on Monday.
Tens of thousands of people have north Most of them on foot, some finding the ruins of their houses and the remains of dear beings, but also bringing together with family members that they have not been able to see for months.
Israel has not confirmed the identity of Thai nationals who should be released on Thursday. A number of Thai citizens who had been agricultural workers in Israel were taken hostage during the October 7 attack in Hamas.
Hamas and its allies should release a total of 33 Israeli hostages during the first phase of six weeks of the ceasefire, which Taken effect on January 19. It should be hoped that negotiations on the second much more difficult phase of the ceasefire plan are starting to progress soon.
The next exchange, which will be the fourth, should take place on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this would include the release of male hostages in Gaza.
The Liberation of Berger left 88 hostages – both alive and dead – still in Gaza, according to Israeli officials, including seven two American nationals: Keith Siegel, 65, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, who grew up in Bloomfield, Connecticut; And Edan Alexander, 19, from Tenafly, New Jersey. Four other Americans were reportedly killed. We still don’t know when one of the Americans could be released.
