Due to the armistice, Israel has tens of thousands of Palestinians return to the northern Gaza Stripes

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned in the most destroyed part of the Gaza Strip on Monday when Israel has been cutting its demolition of the north for the first time since the first few weeks The 15-month war with Hamas According to A fragile ceasefire.

Huge crowds, who carried their belongings on foot, walked along a main street along the coast and represented an amazing reversal of the mass escape from the north at the beginning of the war, of which many Palestinians had feared that Israel would make them permanently.

The opening was delayed by two days because of a dispute between Hamas and Israel, the said that the militant group had changed the order of the hostages that she had released in exchange with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Mediators settled the dispute overnight.

For thousands of Palestinians in Gaza: “The joy of returning”

From 7 a.m. local time, Palestinians were allowed to cross part of the so-called Netzarim corridor on foot on Monday without control, a military zone that halves the area south of Gaza city, delimited by Israel at the beginning of the war. A checkpoint for vehicles with an inspection mechanism was to be opened later, the details of which were initially not known.

Palestinians, who have been looking for refuge in their homes for over a year in dilapidated tent camps and schools that have been converted into emergency accommodations Probably damaged or destroyed. Many had feared that Israel would make its exodus permanently, and expressed similar concerns about an idea of ​​President Trump, a large number of Palestinians in Egypt and Jordan.

“We want to visit my mother and father,” said Ahmad Adas. “It’s been a long time.”

“I waited three days later to go to my parents. We are tired, I want to go to Gaza (city), we won’t come back here, ”added Mohammed Adas. They had both spent several days with thousands of others on the south side of the Israeli control point and waited for the crossing before the dispute between Israel and Hamas could be settled.

Ismail Abu Matter, a father of four children who had been waiting with his family three days before the crossing, described scenes of the jubilee on the other side where people sang, prayed and cried when they were reunited with their relatives.

“It is the joy of return,” said Abu Matter, whose family was one of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or driven out of today’s Israel in 1948 during the war. “We thought we would not return like our ancestors.”

Hamas called the return “a victory for our people and an explanation of failure and the defeat of the (Israeli) occupation and transfer plans”.

The ceasefire aims to end the most fatal and destructive war that has ever been led between Israel and Hamas and ensure the release of dozens of caught hostages The militants’ attack on October 7, 2023What the fights triggered.

In the first days of the war, Israel ordered the large -scale evacuation of the north and stopped it shortly after the soil troops invaded. Around one million people fled to the south in October 2023, hundreds of thousands stayed in the north, where there were some of the most difficult fights and worst destruction of the war.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel would continue to enforce the ceasefire and that everyone who violates him or threatens the Israeli armed forces will “bear full costs”.

“We will not allow a return to the reality of October 7,” he wrote on the X.

Israel had postponed the opening of the border crossing, which was to take place at the weekend, and explained that the Palestinians would not allow the north until a female civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, was released. She also accused Hamas of having given no information on whether the remaining hostages, which are to be released in the first phase, are lived or dead.

The Hamas in turn accused Israel of not opening the border crossing of the agreement.

Hamas provides information about hostages that are to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire

The golf state of Qatar, an important broker of Hamas, announced on the early Monday that an agreement had been made to release Yehoud together with two other hostages before Friday.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the release of the Geisel – which will also include the soldier Agam Berger – would take place on Thursday. This release takes place in addition to the one that is already planned for next Saturday if three more hostages are to be released.

Hamas also handed over a list of necessary information about all hostages that should be released during the six -week first phase of the armistice. The spokesman for the Israeli government, David Mencer, told journalists who showed the list received from Hamas overnight that eight of the 33 hostages that are to be released in the first phase are dead, which means that 25 are still alive .

The families were informed, said Mencer.

During the first phase of the ceasefire, which runs until the beginning of March, the Hamas approved the release of a total of 33 hostages for the release of almost 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The militants have released seven hostages, including four female soldiers in the early SaturdayIn the current ceasefire, in exchange for more than 300 prisoners, including many who are serving lifelong prison terms due to fatal attacks on Israeli.

Israeli officials say that 87 of the 251 hostages, which Hamas were kidnapped by Hamas during the bloody attack of the group on October 7, 2023, are still in Gaza, including the corpses of at least 34, whose death was confirmed by the Israeli military.

The second and much more difficult phase of the agreement has not yet been negotiated. Hamas says that it will not release the remaining 60 hostages if Israel does not end the war, while Netanyahu says that he was still determined to destroy the militant group and end their almost 18-year rule over Gaza.

As Ramy Inocencio from CBS News reported on Monday, several Israeli media reported that President Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, would visit Israel this week. The aim is to keep the ceasefire on course and to get to the second phase, in which hopefully older Israeli men and younger male soldiers are released. This group includes three American double citizens.

Hamas began the war when thousands of their fighters stormed into the south of Israel on October 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250. Around 90 hostages are still in the Gaza Strip, and Israel assumes that about a third is dead.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israel’s air and soil war killed over 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children. It is not said how many of the dead combatants were. Israel states that he has killed over 17,000 militants without providing evidence.

Through Israeli bombing and soil inserts, around 90 % of the 2.3 million people in Gaza were often sold several times and entire districts were rated to the ground.

After collapse, ceasefire remains due to Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon

Regardless of this, the Israeli forces in the South Libanon opened the fire on demonstrators on Sunday request your retreat in harmony A ceasefire agreement In the parallel conflict of Israel with the Hisbollah group supported by Iran. According to Lebanese health authorities, at least 22 people were killed in the clashes and 124 more were violated.

Hours later, the White House announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend the deadline for the deduction of the Israeli troops from the South Libanon until February 18, after Israel more time to deduct beyond the 60-day period had requested that the ceasefire agreement had been determined that stopped the Israeli attack -Hisbollah -War at the end of November.

Israel has declared that it has to stay longer because the Lebanese army is not stationed in all areas of the South Libanon to ensure that the Hisbollah does not rebuild its presence in the region. The Lebanese army has declared that it could only be stationed after the Israeli forces were deducted.