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On the late Sunday, international intermediaries have settled over fragile ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon after clashes between the Israeli military and civilians threatened to undermine both agreements.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Hamas would release three hostages in Gaza on Thursday, including Arbel Yehud, and thus solve the first major crisis of the Gaza ceasefire agreement that came into force a week ago.
In return, Israel will allow displaced Palestinians in Gaza from Monday to return to their houses in the north of the destroyed area.
The question of the release of Jehud had burdened the ceasefire mediated by the USA between Israel and Hamas despite the release Saturday of four Israeli soldiers from Gaza and 200 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
Israeli officials claimed that Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, controlled Gaza, had violated the agreement when the soldiers opened the last civilian hostage in Gaza.
Israel reacted by delaying his withdrawal from the strategic Netzarim corridor, which shares the northern and southern Gaza Strip, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians prevented from returning to the northern part of the territory, as defined in the agreement.
At the weekend, masses of Palestinians gathered near the corridor, and some families slept outside in the winter cold.
The Israeli military said that “warning shots have been fired on several accumulation of dozens of suspicious suspects that advanced on the troops and presented a threat to them”.
According to the health authorities in Gaza, two people were killed in the clashes on Sunday and nine others were injured.
Brokers from the USA, Qatar and Egypt were able to solve the crisis by effectively securing the release of further hostages, including Yehud this Thursday.
The weekly freedom of hostage, which is scheduled to take place next Saturday, will take place as planned, with the release of three other Israelis, according to Israeli civil servants.
In return, several hundred Palestinian prisoners are released from Israeli prisons.
On Sunday, Hamas Israel sent a list of remaining hostage in captivity, which should be released as part of the first six -week ceasefire, with information on whether they were alive or were dead.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which the group killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages.
Israel reacted with an offensive Gaza That cost more than 47,000 people and fueled a humanitarian catastrophe in the area.
US President Donald Trump asked Egypt and Jordan to record The majority of the population of Gazas said it was time to “clean” the area, but his proposal was rejected by the two Arab countries.
Meanwhile, Trump’s government announced that the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, which was closed last November, would be extended until February 18.
The agreement ended the more than one -year fighting between Israel and the Hisbollah, the Lebanese militant group, which attacked the Jewish state out of solidarity.
Israel Maintained last week that the two -month period from Sunday will not meet for the withdrawal of its military from the South Libanon.
Israel has claimed that the Lebanese army missions in areas that were cleared by both his troops and Hisbollah fighters have been too slowly to adhere to the deadline.
Since the Israeli armed forces still kept territory in Lebanon, hundreds of residents were under Israeli shelling when they tried to return to their villages on foot.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 22 people were killed on Sunday and 124 were injured.
