It is part of the agreement with the Government of Israel, who must release 620 Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestine Organization Hamas delivered on Wednesday night To the Red Cross the coffins of four dead hostages in captivity. The bodies will be transferred to Egyptian representatives of the International Organization, who will deliver it to the Israel Defense Forces (FDI).
The delivery occurred after an agreement announced by Hamas last Tuesday. Now Israel should free 620 Palestinian prisoners440 arrested after the attack of October 7, 2023. The bodies delivered by Hamas are those of Shlomo Manzur, Itzik Elgert, Tzahi Idan and Ohad Yahalomi.
The liberation of prisoners had been suspended Last Sunday by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, until “The release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without degrading ceremonies “in reference to the Israeli host who kissed his captors moments before recovering freedom.
The extension of phase 1 is possible?
Israel is looking for an extension of the first phase to ensure the freedom of more prisoners, but Hamas says that it will negotiate anything until prisoners are released whose release was delayed. The second phase was always going to be the most difficult because it would probably force Israel to choose between its two main war objectives: The safe return of the hostages and the annihilation of its captors, said the AP agency.
In a third phase the arduous process of reconstruction of Loop which is expected to take years and cost billions of dollars. But Egypt, a key mediator, refused to discuss an extension until negotiations on phase 2 beginaccording to two Egyptian officials who spoke from anonymity holds AP.
One of the Egyptian officials also demands that Israel complete its withdrawal from the Philadelphia corridor, on the border of the border with Egypt, before moving on to the next phase. The agreement provides that this withdrawal begins this weekend and is completed in eight days.
Israel said Ariel and Kfir Bibas were killed “cold -blooded” by Hamas
The boss of Israel’s Army, Daniel Hagariannounced that Ariel and Kfir Bibas, The brothers of Argentine nationality were killed by Hamas “in cold blood” and “with their own hands.” The official gave a press conference with the forensic results on the bodies, where he confirmed the news and denounced that they tried to set up a scene to hide what happened and cover the atrocities made.
According to Hagari, minors (10 months and four years at the time of kidnapping) They did not died from bullet impacts, but the militiamen killed them by their own means. “We confirmed that the Bibas were killed by Hamas’s terrorists. They did not kill them with weapons, they killed the children with their hands and tried to cover it,” said the military.
Source: Ambito
