Three other Israelis are said to be released from hostage

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Gaza: Three more Israelis should be released from hostage

Today three Israelis are said to be released from Hamas violence, including two German-Israelis. In return, more than 100 Palestinian prisoners – including infamous – are released.

After almost 16 months under the violence of Islamist terrorists in the Gaza Strip, three more Israelis are said to be released today. According to the hostage families forum, there are also two German-Israelis. In return, 110 Palestinian prisoners are to be released from Israeli prisons. In addition, the Islamists are supposed to hand over five Thai people kidnapped from Israel.

The agreement on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which came into force on January 19, stipulates that in a first phase, 33 hostages for 1,904 Palestinian prisoners are released within six weeks. Three civilians and four soldiers were already released as part of the agreement. Further hostages are to be released on Saturday. According to Hamas, eight of the 33 hostages are dead.

The Islamist terrorist organization Hamas had sent a list of the names of the three hostages on Wednesday, which are supposed to be released today. In addition to the names of the two German-Israelis Arbel Yehud (29) and Gadi Moses (80), the name of the 20-year-old soldier Agam Berger was also on the list. There are still 90 hostages in the Gaza Strip, including ten foreigners: eight Thai countries as well as a Nepalese and a Tanzanner.

Gadi Moses is the first man to released the current ceasefire. Yehud and Moses were both kidnapped from their houses in Kibbutz Nir OZ during the devastating massacre of Hamas and other extremists from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. The civilian Yehud was kidnapped together with her boyfriend. The woman’s brother, who also lived in the place near the Gaza Strip, was killed during the terrorist attack.

According to “Times of Israel”, it is assumed that the hostages will not all be released at the same time and in the same place today, since Yehud and Moses were captured by Hamas, while Berger was in the violence of the terrorist organization of Palestinian Islamic jihad.

Among the 110 Palestinian prisoners who are said to be free, more than 30 are said to have been sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Israeli media reports, Sakaria Subeidi, who was Intifada from 2000 from 2000, was also Sakaria Subeidi, which was commander of the military arm of the Fatah movement in Dschenin in northern West Bank. There are also some minors among the prisoners.

No Palestinian prisoners are released for the five Thai hostages. Israeli media reported that they would be free as part of an agreement between Hamas and Thailand. Meanwhile, the Hamas media office reported the return of 500,000 Palestinians who were driven out in the course of the war to the north of the Gaza Strip.

Terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups had delayed more than 250 Israelis as hostages into the Gaza Strip in their raid on Israel, in which around 1,200 people were killed. The attack was the trigger of the war in the sealed coastal area, where, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 47,100 people have been killed since then. The number does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

In Israel, two laws are expected to come into force today that prohibit the work of the Palestinian UN aid work. The organization is therefore prohibited from operating a representation on Israeli territory and offering services. Israeli authorities must also no longer have contact with the UNRWA or its representatives. Employees of the aid organization should also lose privileges such as immunity and tax exemptions.