The families of Israeli hostages have always been held in Gaza blocked traffic in Tel Aviv on Monday evening, panicked by Hamas saying that he would delay the next planned hostage publication under the fragile cease-fire agreement which took effect on January 19.
The fear of the sustainability of the liberation agreement of ceasefire and hostage quickly spread on Tuesday, after the president Trump suggested that the terms of the agreement should be changed Following the threat of Hamas, and as the head of the defense of Israel, he said that he was preparing troops in Gaza for a possible return to combat.
The delicate stop of fighting, negotiated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, has experienced five exchanges between Israel and Hamas so far, with about half of the 33 Israeli hostages which should be released during The first phase of six weeks of the agreement now returning now back at the time which is currently going back to the agreement now returning now back at the time. More than 700 Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli prisons in exchange.
Under the terms of the agreement, a total of 33 hostages were to be published during the first phase of six weeks, in exchange for around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. But the families of the remaining 76 hostages – some of which are already known to be dead – have been distraught by developments on Monday, and by devastating news confirmed later.
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Israeli defense forces announced on Tuesday that the oldest of the remaining captives, SHLOMO MANTZUR, 86, had been murdered in captivity. He was a survivor of the 1941 pogrom in Iraq, in which hundreds were killed in an anti -Semitic riot.
It was with the last hostage outing of Hamas, three Israeli men on February 8, that the tone changed.
The Israelis were left in anxiety after seeing the emaciated state in which the men were, and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that “due to the serious state of the three hostages and violations Repeated from the Hamas terrorist organization “,” the chief had “asked not to allow the situation not to be treated and to take appropriate measures”.
There was no indication of the Netanyahu office during the weekend what could be these measures, but on Sunday, the FDIs declared in a statement that the troops had “operated to distribute suspects which threatened their threat in different Domains of the Gaza Strip “, including warning shots drawn on a” suspicious vessel “seen offshore and a suspect seen approaching troops in the south of the enclave.
The men released on Saturday, on the other hand, brought with them both welcome news and more painful information. The hostage family Alon Ohel learned that he was still alive, but that he is hungry, with untreated injuries and linked in the channels, according to his mother.
“Thank you for the effort you and your staff made to bring the hostages,” said Idit Ohel, speaking to Mr. Trump on Monday. “Today is Alon’s 24th anniversary. I ask you with all my heart, do everything in your power to ensure that this agreement continues.”
The cease-fire agreement also saw Israel allow the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians to return to what remains of their houses in the decimated north of Gaza. But many fear now that the respite could be short -lived.
“People have started to fill up on supplies for fear that war will come back,” said Mohammad Yusuf, who lives in the city of Khan Younis de Southern Gaza. “People are afraid of any statement, on both sides.”
This fear settles not only in Gaza, but in the other, a much larger Palestinian territory, the West Bank occupied by Israel.
Residents, there is already subtract of an Israeli operation To uproot Hamas that the army and the police launched only a few days after the cease-fire in Gaza’s entry into force. Violence against the Palestinians by Israeli settlers on the territory was also increasing.
Residents told CBS News this week that they fear the president Trump’s controversial plan to reinstall All residents of Gaza in other countries and “take control” of the Côteière de Terre are only the beginning.
Even before Mr. Trump began his second term, his electoral victory had already fueled the discussion in Israel of the prospect of the Complete annexation of the West Bank as Israeli territory.
“We will not leave our country,” insisted Maha Fathi Tale, resident of the West Bank resident. “We will not do it. Even if they shoot us. Let Trump do what he wants.”
contributed to this report.
Chris Livesay
