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An Israeli official said on Wednesday that the number of prisoners who are still alive in the Gaza Strip is 24 after US President Donald Trump said the number is 21, which raised their concerns.
The Israeli Coordinator for Prisoners and Missing Affairs, Gal Hirsch, said in a post on X that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is currently holding 59 prisoners, 24 of whom are alive and 35 who died, which have not changed since the period before Trump’s statement.
“All families of the kidnapped are constantly receiving our latest information about their loved ones,” he added.
On Tuesday, US President Trump announced that 3 of the prisoners who are still detained in the sectors, while the other 21 are alive.
Yesterday, the Republican President said on the sidelines of an event at the White House that among the 59 of these are 21 who are still alive and 3 dead.
“We want to try to save as many hostages as possible,” Trump added. “This is a terrible situation,” Trump added.
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In response, the families of the Israeli prisoners in Gaza demanded the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to clarify the number of neighborhoods of them.
The families said in a post on the X platform following statements to the President of the United States regarding the number of neighborhood prisoners who are still detained (in Gaza) that the number of neighborhood kidnappers known to the families – as informed of the official sources – is 24 prisoners.
“We again demand the Israeli government if there is new information that has been hidden from us to pass it to us immediately,” she added.
The families renewed their demand for Netanyahu to stop the war until the return of the last prisoner, saying that this is the most urgent and important national task.
For months, families have been calling on the government to conclude a comprehensive agreement that restores all prisoners in exchange for stopping the war.
Hamas expressed its willingness to a comprehensive agreement, according to which all prisoners are launched in exchange for stopping the war, the massive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and the release of Palestinian prisoners, but Israel opposed this.
In early March, the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel ended on January 19, 2025 with Egyptian -American mediation and American support, and the Palestinian movement was committed to.
However, Netanyahu is required for the International Criminal Court dismissing his second stage and resumed genocide in Gaza on March 18, in response to the most extreme wing in his right -wing government to achieve his political interests, according to the Israeli media.
