Hamas hands four bodies to Israel – Diepresse.com
In return for four dead hostages, Israel releases Palestinian prisoners. Most recently, the country had blocked the exchange in the dispute over the staging of hostages by Hamas. Now negotiations are to be made in the Gaza deal via phase two.
The identity of the four of the Hamas According to Israel's government and the forum of relatives and friends of the deported, handed over, dead Gaza-Geiseln has been confirmed. « With deep grief we received the news of the identification of Shlomo Mantzur, Tsachi Idan, Itzhak Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi, » it said on Thursday. They were kidnapped on October 7, 2023 at the Hamas attack on Israel. There had recently been a different confusion of hostage.
This means that all 33 hostages – 25 alive and eight dead – are back in Israel, whose return had promised Hamas during the first phase of the ongoing ceasefire agreement. According to the relative forum, 59 hostages are now recorded in the Gaza Strip. But it is assumed that only 27 are alive.
The Hamas emphasized in an explanation that further hostages would only be released if Israel adheres to the ceasefire agreement and talks about the second phase of the agreement.
Degrading Hamas ceremonies
As required by the Israeli government, the handover was not staged as a macabre spectacle with armed Hamas fighters, loud music and anti-Israeli propaganda when the coffins were handed over. According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the Islamists had reached this in advance.
In return for the handover of the dead hostages, 596 Palestinians from Israeli prisons were released on the night. Another 46 should follow as soon as the corpses returned by Hamas have been identified. In total, Israel should release 1,904 Palestinians in the first phase.
Israeli had to kiss Hamas fighter on the forehead
HAMAS has always used the hostage of the hostages to become a power demonstration and made the fate of the people captured for many months under gruesome conditions a spectacle for onlookers. The kidnapped people were often demonstrated on a stage and visibly received instructions to smile and wave the waiting crowd of armed Islamists. Last weekend, a Israeli had to kiss two hooded Hamas people on their foreheads.
The procedure for the handover of four dead hostages last Thursday – including two toddlers, who are also German citizens – met with outrage internationally. Hamas had laid the coffins on a stage, while numerous cheering onlookers and dozens of hooded Islamists gathered and loud music played at the location of the handover.
More than 48,000 dead
The Gaza War triggered the unprecedented massacre on October 7, 2023, in which Hamas terrorists and other Islamists killed around 1,200 people and dragged more than 250 more from Israel into the Gaza Strip. Since then, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 48,300 people have been killed, including many women and minors. The numbers make no difference between fighters and civilians and cannot be confirmed independently, are by the United Nations But classified as fairly credible. (APA/dpa)
