Hamas said on Friday that the identity of the Israeli hostages returned to their loved ones would not be known before D-Day. The list of the three hostages released on Sunday was not communicated until late in the morning, at the last moment. , pushing back the start of the truce by three hours. In theory, the releases in phase 1 of the ceasefire agreement were to concern only women, children and men over 50 years old.
Furthermore, it is not certain that the captives will all be alive when they return. As we explain to you in this article, the Islamist organization is committed to mainly handing over the living during the initial phase of the agreement, with the dead to be part of the final stage of the process.
Concerning, for example, the young children Ariel and Kfir Bibas, kidnapped with their parents when they were 8 and a half months and 4 years old, the Islamist organization announced in November 2023 that they were dead, as well as their mother. Since then, the mystery has remained, the Israeli army having never been able to confirm these announcements.
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