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Hamas released the first two of the expected six Israeli hostages, which will be released in a captivity in Gaza on Saturday, a volatile ceasefire that has been condemned to approach the end of the first phase.
Avera Mengistu is a 39-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli man whose family is described as a mentally ill and has been detained since 2014, while 40-year-old Tal Shoham is an elaborate in Rafa, southern Gaza The ceremony was released to the southern part of Gaza and was released to the International Committee. Red Cross.
Mengistu was wandering behind Gaza by Hamas on his own and was captured in an October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Palestinian militants.
The Israeli military confirmed their release, saying they had been transported to southern Israel by the Red Cross.
Eliya Cohen, 27, Omer Shem Tov, 22, and Omer Wenkert, 23, will be released later Saturday with Hisham al-Sayed, 36, and Bedouin, Palestinian Israeli nationality (like Mengistu) is considered a mental illness since 2015.
In exchange for the release of all six, Israel will release 600 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds without charges or trials, and 110 sentences or long sentences convicted of violence against Israelis in military prisons.
Hamas will release 29 hostages, including today’s swap, four of which died in exchange for more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners.
The six are the last hostage to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first phase of the ceasefire, which will end on Thursday and release four bodies.
The second phase of negotiations, which has not yet begun, may see a permanent end to the war in exchange for the release of about 60 hostages, including male soldiers, and many others believed to be dead.
The first phase of the six weeks is already close to collapse, prompting interventions from the United States, Egypt and Qatar to help keep it on track.
In the latest Flashpoint, Hamas released an unidentified body earlier this week instead of Shiri Bibas, a 32-year-old Israeli mother whose two children were also under attack on October 7. captive. Their bodies were released earlier this week.
Later on Friday, Hamas released a second institution, which was subsequently identified by Israeli forensic pathologists as the mother of Bibas, Kfir and Ariel. Hamas blames the chaos in the broken Palestinian enclave on handing over the wrong body.
In Israel, the captives of the Bebas family – the child’s father was released in February during the first phase of the exchange – in the attacks both symbolized the cruelty of Hamas, which triggered the war in Gaza and the failure of the Israeli authorities to do. A symbol of protecting the Israeli authorities. them.
The Israeli military said Friday that autopsy showed that the two children were murdered during their imprisonment rather than being killed by Israeli air strikes, as Hamas said since November 2023.
“The terrorists did not shoot two little boys, they killed them with their naked hands,” said Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari. “After that, they took horrible actions to cover up,” said Admiral Daniel Hagari. These atrocities.”
Despite the troubled first phase of the ceasefire, Israel sent a low-level negotiating team to Cairo for the second phase of negotiations, but little progress has been made so far. Hamas expressed his willingness to continue the second phase of negotiations.
Hamas killed at least 1,200 people and killed about 250 hostages in the Oct. 7 cross-border raid, according to local officials. Gaza health officials say Israel’s retaliation killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians and left the enclave (more than 2.3 million Palestinians) under the control of a humanitarian disaster.
