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Hamas said on Thursday that they had handed over the remains of four Israeli hostages, including a child with a child in a fatal exchange, which indicates progress under a shaky ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli military will take time to confirm the identity of the casualties, but Hamas said they were brothers – Kafir, a child and Aryal, when they were held hostage – and their mother Shiri Bibas, 32, as well as 833, as well LifeShitz.
The Israeli Defense Force has confirmed that four of the deceased hostages have been transferred to the International Committee of Gaza Red Cross. Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as per the ceasefire agreement.
Have Hamas Six people have promised to release the living hostages Before the Saturday schedule, in the hope of discussing the temporary ceasefire into a permanent war. Dozens of living and dead are in captivity in Gaza.
Capture of the Bibas Family – whose father was released on the first phase of Avalbadal on February 7 – he became a special protest in Hamas’s brutality on the October 2021 attack on South Israel. WarThe
In a video of Hamas published by Hamas, Shiri took the children into the arms when the armed fighters occupied their Nara Oz Kibbutz. Children’s pictures in Israeli posters have become ubiquitous to demand the release of the hostages.
Lifechitz and his wife, 86 -year -old Jocheved, were also taken from their home with the Bibbian family. Eochveda was released by Hamas just 16 days of war.
The situation around Bibas’s death is uncertain. Hamas claimed at the end of 2021 that they were killed in Israeli airstrikes without proof.
The militant group repeated the demands on Thursday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjasin Netanyahu and the “missile and Zionist warships” blamed the Red Cross under a sign for their death.
According to Israeli media interviews, the IDF did not comment in the case, but a handful of families were informed that their loved ones were unaware of the Gaza bombing.
Netanyahu said on Wednesday night, “On a rating day, a day of sadness.” “We’re bringing our favorite four hostages to the house, dead.”
Gaza officials have assumed that about 5 Palestinians, most women and children were killed by the Israeli attack, which has destroyed mostly surrounded shit. Israeli officials say about 1,220 people were killed in Israel in the inter -bound operation of Hamas and about 20 people were held hostage.
Thursday was the first of the deceased hostages to reveal and came in the fifth week of A Six -week According to the Red Cross, last month, Israel has released 5 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 5 living Israeli hostages.
Most of the Palestinians were detained in Israel without trial, when dozens of people were sentenced to life imprisonment after the Israelites were convicted in the military prison.
Israel’s military forces allowed thousands of trucks with humanitarian assistance in Gaza, including small amounts of heavy machinery and mobile houses starting this week.
Talks to protect permanent war between Israel and Hamas continue in Cairo, Egypt, Qatar and the United States. However, for an agreement, Israel will need to release the remaining 605 or more hostages to withdraw its army from Gaza and Hamas, many of whom are fearful of the dead.
Netanyahu’s ruling coalition depends on the support of a far -right right political party that oppose the ceasefire The promise to start the attack again Hammas
The militant group appeared to threaten surviving hostages during Thursday’s transfer: “Return to the war = the return of your prisoners in the coffin.”
Hamas has executed at least six prisoners last year after suspecting the Israeli rescue operation where they were held in the tunnels where they were held.
The IDF said that no such operation was going on at that time and it was a regular patrol stumbling on the recently killed hostages.
