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Hamas militants released three male hostages arrested in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel began to free 183 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, part of a high fire agreement that has stopped 15 months of intense struggles.
Militants gave Yarden Bibas already offer French-Israelí Kalderón to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Young In the morning in the city of Gaza north of Gaza. . The three were kidnapped during the attack led by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused the war.
Its launch leads to 18 the number of hostages launched since the stop the fire on January 19. Both Saturday events were fast and tidy, in contrast to the chaotic scenes that took place on Thursday when armed militants seemed to fight to stop a crowd during a crowd during a crowd. Hostage launch.
In Saturday’s releases, masked and armed militants stopped in lines when hostages entered a stage and greeted themselves before being taken and delivered to the Red Cross.
In Tel Aviv’s hostage square, thousands of people gathered to see the releases that are broadcast live on a large screen, shaking signs and cheers.
El Alto El Fuego is aimed at lowering the most deadly and more destructive war ever fought between Israel and the militant group of Hamas. The agreement has remained for two weeks, stopping the fighting and allowing greater help to flow towards the small coastal territory.
During the first phase of the six weeks of the truce, a total of 33 Israeli hostages will be released in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel says that he has received Hamas information that eight of those hostages were killed in the attack of October 7, 2023 of Hamas or have died in captivity.
Leave Gaza to receive medical treatment
Also on Saturday, the injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza to Egypt through Rafah’s crossing, the only exit point for the Palestinians during the war before Israel closed it in May. A civil mission of the European Union was deployed on Friday to prepare for the reopening of the crossing.
The reopening marks another key step in the first phase of Alto El Fuego, which requires the return of the Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to devastated territory.
The Ministry of Health said that 50 sick and injured children would be evacuated through Rafah’s crossing together with 61 colleagues.
Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals at the Gaza Ministry of Health, said more than 6,000 patients were ready to be evacuated abroad, and more than 12,000 patients urgently needed treatment. He said that the small numbers that will be evacuated will not cover the need, “and we hope the number will increase.”
In southern Israel, there were relief sighs and cheers in a living room where Kfar Aza Kibbutz members saw the launch of Keith Siegel. Many of those in the room were friends of the family, who applauded when they saw Siegel’s face, while some cried.
Siegel, 65, originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was taken hostage from Kibbutz, along with his wife, Aviva Siegel. It was released during the high Fire 2023 and has fought a high profile campaign to free Keith and other hostages.
Siegel is one of the highest hostages, now a family name in Israel after his wife Aviva Siegel, also captured in Hamas’ attack, set up a public campaign to take him home after his own liberation from captivity in November of 2023.
Meanwhile, the launch of Bibas, 35, brought renewed attention to the fate of his wife, Shiri, and his two young children, Ariel, Cuatro, and Kfir, nine months old at that time. The four were captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Kfir was the youngest of about 250 people taken captive on October 7, and his difficult situation quickly represented the helplessness and anger that the hostage was stirred in Israel, where the Bibas family has become a family name .
Hamas has said that Shiri and his children were killed in an Israeli air attack. Israel has not confirmed that, but a military spokesman recently recognized a serious concern for his destinations.
Kalderon, 54, was also captured from Kibbutz Nir Oz.
In Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, Kalderon’s family hugged and cheered when he saw the images of him uploading to the stage in Khan Younis and being transferred to the Red Cross.
“Offer return home!” They said the arms rose to the sky.
The two children of Kalderon, Erez and Sahar, were kidnapped next to him and released for a brief fire in November 2023. Family members said they could not recover from their terrible experience until their father returned.
Look | A delivery of previous chaotic hostages in Gaza: 
Hamas released 3 Israels and five Thai nationals in a situation of chaotic hostages in Gaza that led Israel to briefly delay the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners.
“We regret that I have taken so long, more,” Eyal Kalderon said. “We will soon be a complete family. We hope that other families will soon feel like this, to the last family.”
Of the approximately 250 people initially kidnapped by militants in the attack of October 7, more than 100 were released for a high -week fire in November 2023. Around 80 more are still in Gaza, at least one third of them They believed dead.
Israel and Hamas are established next week to begin negotiating a second phase of the high fire, which requires freeing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely. The war could be resumed in early March if an agreement is not reached.
Israel says he is still committed to destroying Hamas, even after the militant group reaffirmed his government over Gaza a few hours after the last high fire.
“They said that Hamas was over during the war. He is over or anything. Independent of CBC Mohamed el Saife in Khan Younis.
Hamas says he will not free the remaining hostages without the end of the war and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
In the October 7 attack that the war began, some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Air War and the Land War of Israel, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
The Israeli army says that it killed more than 17,000 combatants, without providing evidence. Kake Hamas civil deaths because their combatants operate in residential neighborhoods.
