Israel says 8 of 33 prisoners on Hamas’s list of prisoners scheduled for release have already died | News of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel says the next prisoner release will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.

Israel says the Hamas list shows that eight of the 33 prisoners will be released in the first phase of the operation Gaza ceasefire agreement They died.

Government spokesman David Mincer told reporters on Monday that Hamas said the other 25 were still alive. Israel said overnight that it had received a list of information about the status of prisoners from Hamas.

“The families have been informed of the status of their relatives,” Munger said, without mentioning the names of the deceased.

Israel said that the next prisoner release would take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.

About 90 prisoners are still being held. Before this announcement, Israel believed that at least 35 of them were dead.

A truce agreement in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, announced earlier in January after months of fruitless negotiations, went into effect on January 19, halting more than 15 months of the devastating war on Gaza sparked by the October 7 attacks. 2023 led by Hamas. .

Under the first phase of the agreement, 33 prisoners held in Gaza will be released in exchange for more than 1,900 Palestinians detained by Israel.

Seven Israeli women They were released Since the beginning of the truce, as well as 290 Palestinian prisoners.

The two Israeli women, Erbil Yehud and Agham Berger, are scheduled to be released on Thursday, along with a third prisoner whose identity has not been determined, after negotiations between Hamas and Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday evening their release as part of the truce agreement with Hamas.

According to Israel, Erbil Yehud, a woman and a civilian, was supposed to be released last Saturday, in the second prisoner exchange within the ceasefire agreement.

When she did not attend, the Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the agreement, and in response prevented displaced Palestinians from returning to northern Gaza.

Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire and said it informed the mediators that Jews were alive and provided guarantees for her release.

On Monday, after Hamas pledged to release Jews and other prisoners this week, the blockade was lifted.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Displaced Palestinians in Gaza The journey back to destroyed homes in the northern Gaza Strip began later Monday for the first time since the devastating war began.

The United Nations said more than 200,000 people were seen moving north in Gaza on Monday morning alone.

According to UN data, about two-thirds of all buildings in Gaza were destroyed or severely damaged during the conflict, and about 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.1 million people were displaced.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, which is run by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Monday that the death toll from the Israeli war on Gaza had reached 47,317, with the numbers rising despite the ceasefire as new bodies were found under the rubble.

The ministry said that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 11 bodies during the past 24 hours – nine bodies were recovered after the truce, and two new deaths. It did not specify how the new deaths occurred.

The ministry said that Israeli attacks also injured at least 111,494 people.

At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023 and more than 200 people were captured.