Israel apparently wants to release 200 Palestinian prisoners

Relief, joy and tears in Israel: Radical Islamic Hamas has released four other Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip as part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel. Masked Palestinian fighters in full combat gear, the women, which have been captured in captivity since October 2023, initially performed a crowd in the city of Gaza on Saturday and then handed them over to the International Red Cross. Shortly afterwards, the Israeli army received the former soldiers and brought them back to Israel and their families. In return, 200 Palestinian prisoners should be released according to Palestinian information.

The Israeli women Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, Liri Albag and Namama Levy between the ages of 19 and 20 were accompanied back to Israel, according to their release “by special forces of the armed forces and members of the (domestic secret service). In the south of the country they met again with their parents. At the reception location, they were also subjected to a “first medical examination”.

In return, Israel released 200 Palestinians from custody. According to Palestinian information, around 130 prisoners were brought to Ramallah in West Bank. So their families are waiting for them. Around 70 Palestinian prisoners are on the way to Egypt. They are brought abroad in accordance with the agreement because of their serious crimes.

120 of them had been sentenced to lifelong prison sentences, said a Palestinian representative who wanted to remain anonymous on Saturday.

During the handover of the women in Gaza, dozens of Hamas and the ally Palestinian organization of Islamic jihad were on the square in the city of Gaza. The men mostly dressed in combat uniforms set up in rows and wore assault rifles and grenade launchers. Numerous residents of the Gaza Strip had gathered around as onlookers, many cheered the Hamas fighters.

The four young women were led on a stage in front of a shopping center in Gaza, from which a huge Palestinian flag is down. They stood in front of a wall with propaganda solutions, including the saying “Zionism will not win” in front of a wall with propaganda solutions. The women dressed in military clothing smiled, waved off the stage and stretched their thumbs up.

In Tel Aviv, after the release of the four young women, cheers broke out on the “Square of the Geisel”. Relatives and friends of hostages fell into their arms and cried with joy.

Hamas had captured the soldiers during her major attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 in the Military Base Laach OZ, which was responsible for observing the Gaza Strip. The release is the second ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas concluded in mid-January.

Now 26 Israeli hostages remain, which are to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Your names were published, but it is not known in which order they are released.

Israel is primarily concerned with the last two children who are still captured in the Gaza Strip. The two -year -old Kfir and his five -year -old brother Ariel, who were dragged into the Gaza strip together with her mother Shiri Bibas, are the latest hostages of the radical Islamic Hamas.

For many people in Israel, the two red -haired brothers have become a symbol of the bad fate of hostages in the Gaza Strip. Kfir was only eight months old when he was kidnapped from the Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. His brother Ariel was four years old at the time of kidnapping. The image of her kidnapping in the arm of her desperate mother went around the world at the time.

Hamas had already claimed in November 2023 that Kfir, Ariel and Shiri Bibas were killed in an air raid by the Israeli army. However, Israel has never confirmed this.

In this first 42-day phase, a total of 33 Israeli hostages and, according to Egyptian information, a total of around 1900 Palestinian prisoners are to be released. In addition, the auxiliary deliveries in the Gaza Strip are reinforced.

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