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Tel Aviv – Keith Siegel, the American -Israeli patriot was among three The hostage is chest By the militants in the war, which was tied to the war on Saturday, more than 15 months after the prisoner was taken by Hamas. Sijal was released in Gaza City, about two hours after the Israelis were released, Yardin Pepas and Air Calderon, in the southern city of Khan Yunis. The Israeli army confirmed the transfer of the militants from the Red Cross.
All three hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza before being transferred to the Israeli forces. Siegel seemed to have lost his weight during his captivity, but he waved and smiled while Hamas militants were ready to hand him over to the Red Cross staff.
Both deliveries were made quickly on Saturday and without The chaos was seen during the exchanging third prisonerWho angered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was late for the Israeli prisoner, a few hours later.
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Israel was expected to liberate about 90 Palestinians from its prisons on Saturday in exchange for the release of the three hostages, as is specified in the ceasefire agreement that entered into January 19.
Keith Siegel is the first of the liberated America during the new ceasefire
Originally from North Carolina, Sigil moved to Israel four decades ago. Among the seven American citizens who were transferred to hostage in Gaza during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which witnessed that the militants were killing about 1,200 people in southern Israel and taking 251 others prisoners.
Israel’s military aggression against Hamas in response to the killing of more than 4,7,400 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which was left by Hamas, left the entire neighborhoods and caused a humanitarian disaster by removing the entire pocket residents and destroying the infrastructure structure.
It is believed that at least two of the six American hostages who are still detained in Gaza-Sagoy Dickel Chen, 35, who grew up in Bloomfield, Connecticut, Aidan Alexander, 19, from Tennafli, New Jersey. It is believed that four other Americans were killed in captivity.
The wife of Siegel Aviva was also taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, but he was released in the swap of prisoners and prisoners in November 2023.
Speaking to CBS News about a year after her release, Aviva Siegel said there were moments as her militants forced her to Hamas and her husband through tunnels under the Gaza Strip that they felt that we were “sure that we will die.”
Yarden Pepas, 35, is the husband of Sherry Pipas, who was transferred from Kibbutz with her young children Ariel and Kafir during the terrorist attack. He claimed Hamas A few weeks after the attack in which Sherry and her two children were killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza.
In a television interview about a year later, then Israeli government minister, Benny Gantz, indicated that officials knew what happened to the Pepas family, but he said he could not provide details. The fact that according to the conditions of the ceasefire, Hamas issued women and children before the male hostages, suggested that the rest of the Yarden Pepas family had already died.
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Oreer Calderon, 54, was among the five members of his family, which was seized by Hamas fighters from Kibbutz near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023. She was released During the November ceasefire of that year, two of his cousins were killed.
What did the ceasefire accomplished and what comes after that?
Hamas is expected to liberate a total of 33 Israeli hostages during the first stage that takes six weeks of the ceasefire and hostage deal, which entered into force on January 19. After his release on Saturday, 18 years have been released so far. With every edition of the Israeli hostages, dozens of Palestinians of Israeli prisons have been liberated, where nearly 30 years are launched for every hostage that has been alive.
The first stage of the deal was the vision of all women, children, and hostages over the age of 50 in compared to hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, in addition to increasing the flow of humanitarian aid significantly to Gaza and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli forces from some regions of the region.
On the sixteenth day of the ceasefire, which will be on Monday, negotiations aim to create the steps of the second stage, according to the draft agreement he participated with CBS News by a senior Hamas official.
There were a few moments when the fragile agreement seemed to collapse, including when the Erbl Jews had not been released as Israel said it should have been on one of the first stock exchanges. The rapid negotiations resolved the conflict, and Jews were among those who were released by the militants in Gaza on the third stock exchange on Thursday.
“Any deal that takes two or three months to end the war is a bad deal, because it can be launched from bars at any time, and in any parties, either side can accuse the other of rabbit,” the Israeli analyst and two previously said the hostage negotiator, Gershon Baskin for CBS News on Friday .
“We have already received mutual accusations of violating,” Baskin said. “At the present time, the two sides are interested in bringing this forward at least to the end of the 42 days,” from the first stage.
Basin, who has extensive experience in negotiating with Hamas, warned that “you cannot increase both sides” before the expected negotiations during the second stage of the deal.
He said, “What we hear from the Israeli side is that they will not end the war or withdraw from Gaza, and what we hear of Hamas is that there is no deal unless the war ends and causes an Israeli withdrawal.”
But Baskin added that the new Trump administration in the United States is likely to play a fundamental role in determining how negotiations actually go.
“I think it’s all on Trump’s shoulders,” Basin told CBS News. “If Trump is determined that this will happen, Netanyahu cannot material. We have to return to war. If Trump says yes, then this is the end.
