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The Palestinian militant group Hamas delivered three Israeli hostages on Saturday, whose Demacred appearance surprised the Israelis, while Israel began to release dozens of Palestinians in the last stage of a high -fire agreement destined to finish the 15 -month war in Loop.
Ohad Ben Ami, 56, and Eli Sharabi, 52, both Kibbutz Be’eri rehénes during Hamas cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, I Levy, 34, kidnapped that day of the Nova Music Festival Festival in The southern Israel were taken to a podium by armed men of Hamas.
All three men seemed thin, weak and pale, and in worse conditions that the 18 hostages that had been released under the truce reached last month.
“It seemed like a skeleton, it was horrible to see him,” said Ohad Ben Ami’s mother -in Armed with automatic rifles were on each side.
In another sample of Hamas force, which has paraded fighters during previous releases, dozens of its militants deployed in the center of Gaza while they delivered hostages to the International Red Cross Committee. They were then driven in ICRC vehicles to Israeli forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the sight of fragile hostages forced to an apparent interview staged by Hamas militants was “shocking” and that it would be addressed.
“We will not overlook the shocking scenes we saw today,” Netyahu said in a statement.
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, described the release ceremony as cynical and vicious. “This is how a crime is seen against humanity,” he said.
In exchange for the liberation of hostages, Israel is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners, some convicted of participation in attacks that killed dozens of people, as well as 111 detained in Gaza during the war.
In Ramallah, at the West Bank occupied by Israel, a bus transported to 42 Palestinian prisoners released was well received by an applauded crowd. Some waved Palestinian flags and others sang “Allahu Akbar” or “God is the greatest.”
Among the Palestinian prisoners released on Saturday was Eyad Abu Shkaidem, sentenced to 18 periods of life in Israel for attacking suicidal attacks in revenge for Israel’s murders in 2004 of former Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-A abdel Rantissi.
For the families of the Israeli hostages that have been held in incommunicado in Gaza for more than a year, the wait has been a roller coaster of fear and hope as the meeting moments approached.
Images compared to those of the Holocaust survivors
The hostage families forum compared the images of the three hostages with the survivors of Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
“These images evoke the horrible images of the liberation of the camps in 1945, the darkest chapter of our history. We have to take out all the hostages of hell,” said the forum.
Some hostages face painful pain. The two teenage daughters of Sharabi and his British wife were killed in Hamas’ attack against Kibbutz Be’eri, where one in 10 residents was killed.
The exchange is the last one of a series of exchanges that so far have returned 13 Israeli hostages and Thai kidnapped during the Hamas attack and released 583 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Despite the hiccups, a high 42 -day fire and the exchange of hostages for prisoners worked with the support and mediation of the United States by Egypt and Qatar since it entered into force almost three weeks ago.
But the fear that the agreement can collapse before all hostages are free that they have grown since the so -called surprise of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, so that the Palestinians move from Gaza and that the enclave is delivered to the United States and became the “Riviera del Middle East.”
Hamas ‘stronger than before’
Alaa Al-HaSanat, a 25-year-old member of the Qassam de Gaza Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, spoke with CBC News in Deir Al-Balah, saying that “Hamas has returned and stronger than before” and the Palestinians do not They will go.
“With respect to Trump and the question of displacement, we live 475 days of genocide … but we will stay in Gaza,” he said.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has suggested that the Palestinians be relocated to turn Gaza into the ‘Riviera del Middle East’. Larry Garber, former director of the Mission of the International Development Mission of Development of the United States Agency for Bank-Gaza, says that Trump’s words are “dangerous” because they could interfere with phase 3 of the high agreement of Alto el El Alto El El Fire, which includes the implementation of the Gaza Reconstruction Plan.
Israel has rejected the accusations of genocide by saying that it fulfills international law and has the right to defend itself after the Hamas attack.
Hamas said in a statement that the crowds and the armed exhibition in the delivery of hostages demonstrated the rejection of the Palestinians to the Trump plan and showed that Hamas could not be excluded in the post -war gaza arrangements.
The Arab states and the Palestinian groups have rejected Trump’s proposal, which critics said it would be equivalent to ethnic cleaning.
Netanyahu, however, welcomed Trump’s intervention and his defense minister ordered the military to make plans to allow the Palestinians who wanted to leave Gaza do it.
Under the high fire agreement, 33 Israeli children, women and sick, injured and older will be released during an initial phase in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Negotiations in a second phase began this week to return to the remaining hostages and agree on a complete withdrawal of the Israeli troops of Gaza in preparation for a final end of the war.
The gunmen led by Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 as hostages, according to Israeli counts.
In response, Israel launched an air and land war in Gaza that has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health authorities, and devastated much of the narrow enclave.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest orders for Israeli and Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Gaza conflict.
The rights groups have reported serious abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention since the beginning of the Gaza War. The Israeli army is investigating several cases of alleged abuse, but rejects the accusations of systematic abuse within its detention facilities.
