Waffenruhe in the Middle East: release of further hostages in the Gaza Strip

The Islamist terrorist organization Hamas has started release further hostages in the Gaza Strip. A television lifestyle showed how the Israeli soldier Agam Berger (20) was first handed over between ruins in Jabalija by hooded armed to representatives of the Red Cross. Before that, she had to wave a lot on a stage. Her family in Israel followed the ceremony on TV and reacted with enthusiastic cheers to the sight of the young woman. According to the Israeli army, Berger is now back in Israel.

According to the information published in advance, the German-Israelis Arbel Yehud (29) and Gadi Moses (80) and five Thai workers are also to be released today. They are to be handed over in other places – in Chan Junis in the south of the Gaza Strip and in the city of Gaza.

The released hostages are to be brought to an Israeli military camp on the edge of the Gaza Strip and from there to four different hospitals in Israel. In return, 110 Palestinian prisoners are to be released from Israeli prisons, including at least 30 convicted of murder and some women and minors.

New agreements after delay in the release of German-Israelin

Yehud was kidnapped on October 7, 2023 with her boyfriend from her house in Kibbutz Nir Oz. The terrorists also shot the couple’s dog. The woman’s brother, who also lived in the place near the Gaza Strip, was killed during the terrorist attack.

According to Israeli information, the 29-year-old German-Israel was originally supposed to be released last Saturday. The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas stipulates that civilians should first be released. Instead, the Hamas left four soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners.

Israel had therefore initially blocked the agreed return of displaced persons to the north of the Gaza Strip, but allowed after a new agreement on the release of the German-Israeli and two other hostages.

The woman was in the violence of the terrorist organization of Palestinian Islamic jihad. The organization published a video of the young woman this week. Three other Israeli hostages are to be released this Saturday.

Palestinian prisoners are released from prisons

The 110 Palestinian prisoners are exchanged for the three Israeli hostages. More than 30 of them are said to have been sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Israeli media reports, Sakaria Subeidi, who was the Commander of the Military Arm of the Military Arm of the Fatah Movement in Dschenin in northern West Bank during the second Palestinian uprising. Around 3,500 Palestinians were killed between 2000 and 2005, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed in attacks by Palestinians. A few years ago, he and other prisoners escaped from an Israeli high -security prison through a tunnel, but were again caught.

According to the media, Mahmud Atallah, who has served a lifelong prison sentence plus 15 years for the murder of a Palestinian woman who has been accused of collaboration with Israel, should also be served.

No Palestinian prisoners are released for the five Thai hostages. Israeli media reported that they would be free as part of an agreement between Hamas and Thailand.

Terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups killed around 1,200 people on October 7, 2023 and abducted more than 250 Israelis as hostages into the Gaza strip on October 7, 2023. The attack was the trigger of the war in the sealed coastal area, where, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 47,400 people have been killed since then. The number does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Waffenruhe and exchange of hostages and prisoners

If the handover of the eight kidnapped takes place as expected, 80 hostages will be captured in the Gaza strip. The agreement on an ceasefire, which came into force on January 19, stipulates that in a first phase, 33 hostages for 1,904 Palestinian prisoners will be released within six weeks – seven hostages had already been released over the past two weekends. The Hamas recently announced that eight of the 33 hostages were dead. However, the terrorist organization left open what hostages it is.