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The Prime Minister of Israel warned Hamas that will end the fire in Gaza and will resume the intense fight if the Palestinian group “does not return our hostages on Saturday at noon.”
Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the Israeli forces to accumulate inside and around Gaza in response to Hamas’ announcement that he was postponing releasing more hostages until further notice.
It was not clear if Netanyahu was demanding the launch of the remaining 76 hostages, or only the three scheduled to be released this Saturday.
On Monday, Hamas said he would delay his release because Israel had violated the three -week fire agreement, even by blocking vital humanitarian aid, an affirmation that Israel has denied.
The group’s decision led the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to propose that Israel cancel the agreement and “let hell break” unless “all hostages” were returned on Saturday.
Hamas said in an earlier statement on Tuesday that the door was open to us, the mediators of Qatar and Egyptians to intervene and obtain the agreement of Alto El Fuego, which stipulates the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, again in the path.
A high Hamas official also dismissed what he called Trump’s “threat language”.
The confrontation about the remaining hostages occurs a week after Trump announced a controversial plan for the United States to take care of postwar Gaza and permanently relocates the two million Palestinians who live there.
The Palestinian authority, Hamas and the Arab states categorically rejected the proposal, while the UN warned that any forced displacement would be “equivalent to ethnic cleaning.”
It is assumed that the first phase of the high fire agreement will last six weeks and will see a total of 33 Israeli hostages exchanged for about 1,900 Palestinian and detainees of Gaza.
Until now, 16 living hostages have been released since El Alto El Fuego entered into force on January 19. Hamas has also delivered five Thai hostages outside the terms of the agreement.
It is assumed that the remaining Israeli hostages, two children, a woman, five men over 50 and nine men under 50, will be released during the next three weeks. Both parties have said that eight of those hostages are dead, but only one has been named.
The agreement has also seen the Israeli forces withdraw from the densely populated areas of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the north, and hundreds of help trucks allowed entering the territory every day.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostages.
Since then, more than 48,210 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health of the territory.
Most of the population of Gaza has also been displaced several times, it is estimated that almost 70% of buildings are damaged or destroyed, health, water, sanitation and hygiene systems have collapsed, and there is food shortage, food shortages, fuel, medicine and shelter.
