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The militants, led by Hamas, launched eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Israel was expected to launch 110 other Palestinian prisoners.
The release was delayed from a chaotic scene in which a crowd of Palestinians wandered into the hostages while handing them over to the Red Cross.
The truce aims to end the bloodiest and most destructive conflict between Israel and Hamas, which sparked the attack on October 7, 2023 fighting. Despite the conflict earlier this week I was held on the sequence that the hostages were launched.
The first hostage, Israeli soldier Ajam Berger, was issued in northern Gaza. Hours later, a chaotic scene reveals that thousands of people pressed a delivery site in the southern city of Khan Yunis in Gaza, in front of the house of Hamas, the murding leader, Yahya Sinwar.
The footage of Erbl Jews, a 29 -year -old hostage, showed amazing as he led it through the crowd by the militants to wait for the Red Cross vehicles.
Hundreds of militants from Hamas and the smaller Islamic jihad group arrived with a convoy in a force of power, thousands of people gathered to watch, and some of them are roofs of houses that were bombed. Many shouted at the crowd and surrounded Jews while the militants pushed the convincing people and accompanying them.
Then the Red Cross vehicles were late while trying to drive away. The Israeli army later said that the hostages were in Israel.
The other two Israeli, who were released on Thursday, were Yehoud and Gadi Moses, a 80 -year -old man. Five Thai citizens were released, but they were not officially identified.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “shocking” scene and called on international mediators to prevent similar events in the future.
Hamas had earlier handed over Burger, 20, to the Red Cross after being subjected to a crowd in the urban refugee camp destroyed in Gabalia, northern Gaza. The Israeli government later launches footage of Burger embracing and crying with her parents.
Berger was among the five young soldiers kidnapped in the October 7 attack. The other four were released on Saturday.
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People chanted, applauded and welcomed in a square in Tel Aviv, where the hostages of the hostages saw Berger delivery on large screens next to a large hour that was calculated in the days when the hostages were in captivity. Hold some signs that say: “We are waiting for you at home.”
A number of captive foreign workers were transported with dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers during the Hamas attack. Twenty -three Thai were among more than 100 hostages that were issued during a week’s ceasefire in November 2023. Israel says eight Tais remain in captivity, and two of them are believed to have died.
Among the people who were released from prisons in Israel, spends 30 provisions for life after being convicted of deadly attacks against the Israelis. Zakaria Zubaidi, a prominent former armed leader and theater director who participated in a dramatic break in 2021 before relying on him a few days later, among those who will be released.
Israel said that Jews were supposed to be released on Saturday and delayed the opening of the crossings to northern Gaza when it was not.
The United States, Egypt and Qatar, which mediated the ceasefire after a year of difficult negotiations, resolved the conflict with the approval that Yaud will be released on Thursday. Three other hostages, all of whom are men, will be released on Saturday with dozens of Palestinian prisoners.
On Monday, Israel began allowing the Palestinians to return to Northern Gaza, which is the most destructive part of the region, and hundreds of thousands retreated. Many found only piles of rubble where their homes were.
The ceasefire at the present time, but the next stage will be more difficult
In the first stage of the ceasefire, Hamas is scheduled to launch a total of 33 Israeli hostages, including women, children, older adults, sick or wounded men, compared to nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel says Hamas confirmed that eight of the hostages who will be released at this stage have died.
The Palestinians chanted the release of prisoners, who see widely as heroes who sacrificed the end of Israel’s occupation for decades from the lands they want for a future country.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces retreated from most of Gaza, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to return to the remaining homes and humanitarian groups to help.
The deal invites to Israel and Hamas to negotiate the second stage in which the rest of the hostages will launch and will continue to stop the shooting indefinitely. The conflict can resume in early March if an agreement is not reached.
Israel says it is still committed to the destruction of Hamas, even after the armed group re -evaluated its rule over Gaza within hours of the armistice. A prominent right -wing main partner in the coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already calling for the conflict to appeal after the first stage of the ceasefire.
Hamas says it will not launch the remaining hostages without ending the complete Israeli conflict and withdrawal from Gaza.
Hamas began the conflict when thousands of fighters stormed Israel. The gunmen killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped about 250.
Israel’s conflict, which followed from air and wild between the bloodiest and most destructive decades. More than 47,000 Palestinians were killed, more than half of them are women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of dead.
The Israeli army says it has killed more than 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence, and that he had done its best to try to spare civilians. It blames the civil deaths on Hamas because its fighters work in dense residential neighborhoods and put the military infrastructure near homes, schools and mosques.
The Israeli attack has turned entire neighborhoods into a hills of gray ruins, and it is not clear how or when nothing will be rebuilt. About 90 % of Gaza population has been displaced, often several times, with hundreds of thousands of people living in faded tents or closed schools.
Shorrava of Deir Al -Bala, Gaza, a sector, and a Dubai Russians, the United Arab Emirates. Associated Press Press Sam Midnik in Tel Aviv, Israel contributed.
