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Hamas published three other Israeli men from Gaza on Saturday, after the increasingly fragile four -week ceasefire had almost collapsed in a week of Brinkmanship.
The Israelis were handed over to the international committee of the Red Cross in an artistically staged ceremony in Khan Younis, a largest destroyed city – and the Hamas stronghold – in the southern Gaza Strip.
During the attack of the Palestinian militant group on October 7, 2023, in which, according to Israeli officials, around 1,200 people were killed, they were hosted by the hosts from their houses in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Sagui Dekel-Schen, Sasha Troubanov and Isiir Horn seemed to be physically in a better form than the previous group of male hostages published last weekend. During the ceremony, the Hamas fighters showed weapons and uniforms that they captured by Israeli military bases during the cross-border robbery in 2023.
Israel will later publish more than 350 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in the armistice.
The agreement almost collapsed at the beginning of this week after Hamas claimed that Israel had violated the ceasefire by blocking the entry into the Gaza of heavy machines to remove rubble and mobile homes to accommodate hundreds of thousands of repressed Palestinian civilians.
Hamas threatened to delay the publication of the hostages if Israel did not make it easier to enter the equipment in accordance with the ceasefire contract.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied by re -establishing troops near the border between Gaza Strip in southern Israel and restarting the attack against Hamas if the release did not take place as planned.
In the following days, Arab media sent pictures of some heavy machines that occur through Egypt, and Hamas agreed to continue the staggered publications of hostages on Friday.
The need for protection in Gaza became more and more urgent this week than the winter storms beat the coasts. About 2 million people were driven out and live in extensive tent cities and the ruins of their neighborhoods.
The vast majority of Palestinian prisoners who were planned for the release on Saturday were held in Israeli prisons without a trial after he was arrested in Gaza in the 15 months of the war. According to the local officials, more than 48,000 people have been killed in besieged stripes since the beginning of the war.
The three -stage ceasefire is located in a transition period between the first and second phases, in which negotiations to end the war.
In the first six-week time, which ended in early March, Hamas ended to publish 33 Israeli hostages, including all children, women and men over 50. Many of the remaining 73 hostages are considered dead.
The group originally took around 250 people hosted on October 7, 2023. During a short ceasefire in November 2023, around 120 was published in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas will only start releasing the male soldiers they have captured and passed over the corpses of the dead hostages when negotiations manage to convert the temporary ceasefire into a permanent armistice. This would permanently withdraw its armed forces from Gaza.
These talks should start last week, but Israel does not yet have to send high -ranking teams to Qatar or Egypt, who convey the agreement next to the United States.
The framework of the ceasefire is increasingly burdened due to operative wrangles and due to the repeated claims by US President Donald Trump to assume the United States.
Trump’s proposal, which could lead to a mass assignment of around 2.3 million Palestinian civilians, encouraged Netanyahu, who is increasingly not ready to end the war with Hamas.
Trump organized Jordan’s King Abdullah in the White House this week and repeated his claim that Jordan and Egypt would accept the refugees despite the widespread conviction of the plan in the Arab world.
