The moment was awaited. On Sunday, the provisions of the ceasefire agreement came into force. First three Hamas hostages were released and handed over to the Israeli army.
Faced with this major progress, American President Joe Biden welcomed on Sunday that the Middle East is a “profoundly transformed region”. After the release of the first hostages, he called for prayers for them and their families.
He described the deal as “the hardest negotiation” of his life. “After so much pain, destruction, loss of life, the guns fell silent today in Gaza,” greeted the democratic leader.
For the Trump clan, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas ‘will never again govern in Gaza’according to a future National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, Mike Waltz.
Macron wants “Palestinian governance in Gaza”
For his part, Emmanuel Macron stressed on Saturday, during a telephone interview with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the importance of “being able to restore Palestinian governance in Gazafully involving the Palestinian Authority.
He also argued that “the future of the Gaza Strip must be part of that of a future Palestinian state and that in doing so it was necessary to ensure that no massacre, such as that committed on October 7, could ever be repeated against the Israeli people,” added the French presidency.
For the Élysée, it is “now essential to work immediately to respond to the vital emergency for Gazansby ensuring massive delivery of humanitarian aid, meeting the needs of the inhabitants.”
“The start of a new chapter”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the three hostages released by Hamas “went through hell”adding that they were coming “out of darkness into light, out of slavery into freedom.”
-The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen hoped that this step “would be the start of a new chapter for Israel and the Palestinian people”. “Seeing the hostages reunited with their families fills our hearts with hope”she said, welcoming the ceasefire in Gaza that Europe “will support”.
On the British side, Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the “fantastic” news of the release of three Israeli hostages, including British-Israeli national Emily Damari, and called for the ceasefire agreement is “fully implemented”.
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