Waffenruhe in the Middle East: Hamas and Israel exchange hostages with prisoners

Waffenruhe in the Middle East: Hamas and Israel exchange hostages with prisoners

Waffenruhe in the Middle East
Hamas and Israel exchange hostages with prisoners






Israel and Hamas agreed on an agreement in the Gaza War in January. As part of the deal, more is released from Israel and Palestinian prisoners.

Three men kidnapped from Israel have returned to their homeland after 484 days hostage in the Gaza Strip. Her release from Hamas’ violence triggered great joy in Israel. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, relatives were waiting for the return of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. In Gaza, the news about the opening of the Rafah border crossing to Egypt made relief.

The Hamas handed over the following hostages to the Red Cross in the course of a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Ofer Kalderon (54), Israeli-French citizenship Bibas (35), Israeli-Argentinian citizenship Siegel (65), Israeli and American citizen

In return, 183 Palestinians were released – 72 from Israeli prisons and in 111 people arrested in the Gaza Strip after October 7th.

Palestinian terrorists had kidnapped Kalderon, Bibas and Seals during the Hamas massacre on October 7th in Israel. Above all, the fate of the Bibas family causes a sensation worldwide. Bibas’ wife and her two toddlers will continue to be recorded in the Gaza Strip. In Israel there are “serious worries” about the fate of the three, which also have German citizenship.

After the release of the three abducted, 79 hostages will be recorded in the Gaza Strip, 35 of them are said to be dead. The next hostages are to be released next weekend.

No large crowds in hostages

The two hostages in Chan Junis and the city of Gaza were arranged and quickly compared to the release on Thursday, in which chaotic scenes played. The states mediating between Israel and the Hamas had said to have a safe departure of the hostages. This time no large crowd was gathered on site.

TV recordings showed how armed and hooded Hamas fighter in uniform at the harbor of Gaza lined a street through which the vehicle drove with Keith Siegel. You can also see a woman who sprinkles rose petals and glittering confetti towards the Hamas fighter. The carefully staged procedure was like a demonstration of power in Hamas.

HAMAS and representatives of the Red Cross sign “expression documents” before each handover. On television recordings you can see how Kalderon and Bibas took a stage in the city of Chan Junis and had to wave there.

On a banner on the stage to which Keith Siegel was led two hours later at the port of the city of Gaza, the Hebrew Scripture was: “Zionism will not win”. The term means the pursuit of the establishment of a Jewish state. In its charter, the terrorist organization Hamas calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and the violent construction of an Islamic state of Palestine from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean in the west.

Border crossing Rafah reopened – patients travel to Egypt

After the return of the three abducted to Israel, the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip was reopened for the first time in almost nine months. Several patients were brought from the Gaza Strip via Rafah for medical treatment to Egypt, such as security circles and the Egyptian red crescent. First of all, around 50 of them should leave the Gaza strip.

The state-related TV broadcaster Al-Kahira News reported that, among other things, a boy with an immune disease accompanied by his mother and a girl to whom a leg was to be amputated were brought to Egypt.

According to the World Health Organization WHO, a total of 12,000 to 14,000 people urgently need medical help, which cannot be provided in the Gaza Strip. Among them are at least 2,500 children. It’s about people with life -threatening illnesses or war injuries.

The only border crossing that does not lead over Israeli territory was closed after Israel’s army took control there last May on the Palestinian side.

Free hostages meet relatives – great emotions

After the return of the three freely released men, there was great joy in Israel, and especially among the members of the ex-Geiseln. Jarden Bibas, for example, can be seen on a video that is spread by the Israeli government and can be seen in close hug with his father and sister. His humor has remained, you hear his visibly relieved father said to the 35-year-old. He kisses his son again and again.

Israel’s government also published pictures of the joyful reunion of Ofer Kalderon with his four children. A video shows the father how he hugs his two daughters and both sons and then jokes with them. “I didn’t give up,” he let the four know. To his eldest son, who survived the terrorist attack in a shelter elsewhere, he jokingly said that he had better hidden.

Relatives receive Palestinian prisoners in Ramallah

Dozens of released Palestinian prisoners arrived in the West Bank. They received relatives of those affected in the city of Ramallah, as Palestinian media reported. A total of 72 prisoners should be released, including some who have been sentenced to life imprisonment. One of the best known that reported reports are:

Schadi Amuri, who was involved in the murder of an Israeli couple in the West Bank in 2002, who was committed in 2002 in 2002.

The two men from the West Bank are brought abroad after their release, in which country was not known. This is intended as part of the Gaza agreement because of the severity of their crimes.

In addition, 111 Palestinians are to come free in the Gaza Strip after October 7th. Israel is said to have reported that they had nothing to do with the Hamas terrorist attack.

Hamas said that ex-prisoners had to be treated in hospitals. She accused Israel of mistreating and torturing the prisoners in prisons. Palestinian media had also reported abuse in the past few weeks. The information could initially not be checked independently.

79 hostages in the Gaza Strip

The agreement via a ceasefire came into force on January 19. It states that in a first phase, 33 hostages in exchange for 1,904 Palestinian prisoners are released within six weeks. The Hamas recently announced that eight of the 33 hostages were dead. It is unclear who it is. 18 hostages are now free.

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.

dpa

Source: Stern

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