A net of voice defies the wind. On the heights of the village of Poria Illit, north of Israel, Zehava whispers a long complaint. “All these years, I waited for your return. I would never have thought that day would come. His son died in 2014 in Gaza. A missile shot exploded his armored vehicle in a bastion of Hamas. Oron Shaul was 20 years old. The Islamist group has detained its body for ten years. The Israeli army announced that it has recovered it on Sunday.
His funeral on Monday launched a signal. The first phase of the ceasefire signed between Israel and Hamas must allow 33 hostages to be repatriated. The Palestinian entity has held more than 60 others since October 7. Thirty are undoubtedly died. Their fate is also a national cause. “We are ready to release terrorists so that we are given bodies. This is how important it is for us ”, thunders a sixty -something.