Approval from the Israeli government is still missing, where hours of intense debate are taking place. The Ministers of Finance and Security expressed their rejection.
Israel’s finance minister and right-wing politician, Bezalel Smotrich, raised objections this Wednesday to the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. He considers it “bad and dangerous” for the security of his country. It still needs to be approved by the security cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
“The agreement that will be presented to the government is a bad and dangerous agreement for the security of the State of Israel,” he warned. Smotrichsettler and leader of the Jewish party Religious Zionism, in a statement. “We are firmly opposed to this. We will not remain silent. The voice of the blood of our brothers cries out to us,” he said.
Although the agreement was announced by the outgoing president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the mediating Qatar, the approval of the Israeli government is still missing, where hours of intense debate are taking place. He Israeli President Isaac Herzog supported the agreement and asked that it be ratified. “It is an important step. It is a necessary step. There is no greater moral, human, Jewish or Israeli obligation than to bring our sons and daughters back to us, either to recover at home or to be buried,” Herzog said.
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There are objections from the Israeli right. So much Smotrich as Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvirsettler and leader of the right-wing Otsmá Yehudit party, expressed their rejection. Even Yehudit said on Tuesday that he blocked the agreement several times.
Smotrich revealed that “for the last two days, the Prime Minister and I have had heated debates on the issue; He knows what the detailed demands of religious Zionism are and the ball is in his hands.“.
The Finance Minister recognizes the valuable significance of recovering hostages, but fears it is not the end of the war. “Along with the great joy and emotion for the return of each and every one of the kidnapped people, the transaction sacrifices many achievements of the war in which the heroes of this nation sacrificed their lives and will cost us a lot of blood,” he considered.
What will the release of the hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners in Israel be like?
The 33 hostages will be released during the first phase of the ceasefire that will last 42 days. According to the Jewish News Agency (JNA), It will be in stages. First it will be the turn of civilian women, then military women and, finally, men over 50 years old and sick.
The same day as the beginning of the ceasefire agreement, January 19the first three hostages will be released. On the seventh day, four more will be released. Then, every seven days, three hostages will be released. The last 14 will be released in the last week of the first phase.
Regarding the Palestinian prisonersfrom Israel assure that those who participated in the excursion on October 7, 2023 will not be released, but rather those who were captured after the beginning of Israel’s military offensive, reported in the AJN.
Source: Ambito
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