The initial agreement would include the release of elderly, sick and minors detained in Gaza. The Israeli government said the terrorist group had not yet provided a list of captives.
A leader of the terrorist group Hamas declared Sunday at AFP that the Palestinian Islamist movement is ready to free 34 Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza gangs during the “first phase” of an agreement with Israel.
Hamas “agreed to release 34 Israeli prisoners from a list provided by Israel in the first phase of a prisoner exchange agreement,” the source said.
The Prime Minister’s Office Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas had not yet provided a list of hostages that would be released as part of a deal.
The Hamas official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the ongoing indirect negotiations with the media, said that 34 hostages Those who will be included in the initial exchange include all women, children, elderly and sick captives still held in Gaza.
The official said Hamas needed time to determine whether they were alive.
“Hamas agreed to release the 34 prisoners, alive or dead. However, the group needs a week of calm to communicate with the kidnappers and identify those who are alive and those who are dead,” the official said.
Of the 251 hostages captured in the October 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war, 96 remain in Gaza, including 34 who the military says are dead.
On Saturday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Israel’s main cities to challenge the Prime Minister’s government. Benjamin Netanyahu an agreement with Palestinian terrorists for the release of hundreds of hostages.
Again, the greatest concentration was in Tel Avivwhere police arrested six protesters on the iconic Begin Street after they refused to clear the road, the newspaper reported. The Times of Israel.
Police used horses to charge the demonstrators, who chanted slogans against the police intervention.
One of the speakers on the podium appealed to the President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump: “End this shit war now,” he said. Omri Lifshitzson of freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz.
The nephew of one of the dead hostages, City Moralso addressed Trump. “Stop the revenge campaign in Gaza. We need our hostages back. “We will die without them,” he said. “The previous administration failed miserably. “You can do better,” he added.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, several demonstrators stripped naked on King George Street and showed inscriptions in Hebrew and Arabic denouncing the consequences of the cold in the Gaza Strip with phrases such as “In Gaza they die of cold “.
The bulk of the demonstration headed to Paris Square, next to Netanyahu’s official residence. There were no arrests.
Negotiations will resume in Qatar
On the other hand, Netanyahu ordered a delegation of return to the negotiating table with Hamas in Doha, capital of Qatarafter negotiations stalled again last week, although the sides said a deal was “closer than ever.”
“Netanyahu authorized a working delegation made up of Mossad -foreign intelligence service-, Shin Bet -internal intelligence- and the Israeli Defense Forces continue negotiations in Doha,” the Prime Minister’s Office reported Thursday in a note reported by Israeli media.
(With information from AFP)
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