After Hamas said that he was going to release 6 living Israeli hostages and restore 4 bodies, family members expressed both their joy and sorrow on the eve of the Liberation, while the Gaza Palestinians continue to Hopefully the ceasefire will maintain.
The members of the families of Israeli hostages detained in Gaza by Hamas expressed both their joy and their sadness as the next releases scheduled for this Thursday and Saturday.
Hamas has announced that it would release six Israeli hostages living on Saturday and that it would return the bodies of four other hostages on Thursday, a surprise acceleration of the apparently in exchange for authorization by Israel to bring mobile homes and equipment construction in the devastated Gaza Strip.
These six hostages are the last to be released during the first phase of the ceasefire, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.
Herut Nimrodi, mother of the hostage Tamir Nimrodi, who should not be released during the first phase of the ceasefire, said that she felt contradictory feelings when this news was announced.
“”The feeling of going from great sadness to great joy, and everything is mixed. I don’t know what it is. This is really something that we do not know how to react“Said Ms. Nimrodi.
“”My son is not in this case, and I have no idea if he has survived or not, and I am always suspended without any information and I am afraid of not arriving at the point where I can tighten him in my arms and feel it again, and start our life again“She added.
The “Bibas family” will be part of the repatriated bodies
The announcement made by the head of Hamas, Khalil al -Hayya, in pre -recorded remarks released on Tuesday, said that among the dead would appear the “Bibas family” – two young boys and their mother who, for many Israelis, symbolize the Sort of people made prisoner. Israel did not confirm their death and the Prime Minister’s office asked the public not to broadcast “photos, names and rumors” after the announcement of Hamas.
“Surviving members of the Bibas family said in a statement published Tuesday by a group representing parents of the hostages:”In recent hours, we have been in turmoil. Until we receive a final confirmation, our trip is not over. “
Israel has long expressed his great concern about Shiri Bibas and his sons, Kfir and Ariel, who, according to Hamas, were killed during an Israeli air strike at the start of the war. The husband and father Yarden Bibas was kidnapped separately and released this month.
KFIR, who was 9 months old at the time, was the youngest hostage taken during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
The six living hostages whose liberation is planned are Eliya Cohen, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Hisham Al-Sayed and Avera Mengistu, said the forum of hostage and disappeared families (Hostages and Missing Families Forum ).
The Palestinians keep the hope of a second phase of ceasefire
An Israeli official, speaking under the cover of anonymity in accordance with the regulations, said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to authorize the entry into Gaza of mobile homes and construction equipment requested for a long time , as part of efforts to accelerate the release of hostages.
Last week, Hamas threatened to block the releases, invoking the refusal to authorize the mobile homes entrance and heavy equipment among other alleged truce violations.
Indeed, Israel began to authorize the entry of decoration of the rubble on Tuesday. Two bulldozers were seen clearing rubble in an area close to the Palestinian side of the Rafah border post. An Egyptian driver told the Associated Press that dozens of bulldozers and tractors were at another point of crossing, awaiting the authorization of Israel to enter.
The current phase of the ceasefire extends until the beginning of March, and it is feared that the fights will resume. The belligerents must still negotiate the second, more difficult phase, in which Hamas would release dozens of additional hostages in exchange for a sustainable ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
The Palestinians of Gaza expressed the hope that the ceasefire will last until the next phase. “”We were very patient and we hope that the truce will continue because we have witnessed death and destruction“Said Raafat Azzam, a resident of Jabaliya, in the north of the Gaza Strip.” We want a permanent truce. Our generation was executed, the young generation was executed “.
The ceasefire that started in mid-January ended the fighting that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
But the Israeli government continues to affirm that it wants to eliminate Hamas as a military and government force in Gaza. The proposal of the American president Donald Trump to definitively expel the two million inhabitants of Gaza and to rearrange the territory, although rejected by the Arab world and the Palestinians, aroused even more uncertainty. Egypt develops a counter-project aimed at rebuilding the territory without moving the Palestinians.