Israel liberates Palestinian prisoners after handing over chaos

Israel and enthusiasm exchanged a new group of hostages and prisoners on Thursday in a delivery that was transferred to chaos while armed militants were struggling to control a crowd of Palestinians trying to take a look at the Israelis within 15 months of the war.

Hamas released a total of eight Israeli Thai hostages In the Gaza Strip, including the delivery designed tightly to an Israeli soldier, Ajam Berger, 20, in the northern town of Gabalia.

But the turmoil surrounding the release of two other Israeli hostages – Erbl Jews, 29, and Jadi Musa, 80, in the city of Khan Yunis – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Israel. He led his office to the announcement that he had had the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners, as required by the truce in which Qatar, Egypt and the United States mediated.

The episode briefly briefed doubts about whether the prisoner’s release would never happen.

Mr. Netanyahu criticized the “shocking scenes” of crowds screaming and wandering to approach Mrs. Jews with a fearful appearance and Mr. Moussa. “This is additional evidence of the unimaginable brutality of the terrorist organization Hamas,” said Israeli Prime Minister.

The intermediaries called on the internationals to secure guarantees from Hamas in order to “the safe exit of our hostages in the following rounds.” The Israeli government was later occupied, and issued the prisoners imprisoned, saying that the mediators promised the safe passage of the hostages in the future stock exchanges.

In a statement, Hamas said that the demand for inflammatory deliveries showed that the Palestinians were determined to stay on their soil. For the Israelis, chaos showed Hamas’s desire to humiliate and torture hostages even while they were released.

In the previous deliveries, the gunmen pushed the hostages to a cheerful, and sometimes they bother the crowds before being transferred to the Red Cross officials, who then handed them over to Israeli officials.

In addition to Three hostages of IsraelisOn Thursday, Hamas liberated five Thai agricultural workers who were kidnapped when the gunmen attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. They were Bongsak Thani, Satian Swakham, Wattara Sri Surion, Panoat Setho and Sorrasak Lamnaw. The fate of one of the anecdotal Thai, Natabong Pinea, remained unclear.

The exchanges came during the first stage of the temporary ceasefire for 42 days, and Israel and the enthusiasm of negotiation in the next stage.

Before the hostages were released in Khan Yunis on Thursday, large numbers of Palestinians gathered near the house of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, who was killed by Israel in October. A small white car was pushed carrying prisoners and surrounded by armed men slowly on its way through the crowds of screaming.

Pictures and videos show Mrs. Yehud, one of the last living hostages in Gaza, walking with caution through the crowds while it was surrounded by gunmen who carry a gun from Hamas and Islamic jihad on their way towards the Red Cross convoy. The Red Cross handed Ms. Jews to the Israeli soldiers.

The third Israeli hostage, Mr. Moussa, was also forced into the part on his way through a narrow crowd of spectators.

Eve Dakord, the former general manager of the Red Cross, said that the delivery operations in Khan Yunis were “risky”, “unacceptable” and “completely psychological torture”.

“The launch of the hostages in this way creates a tremendous shock at the top of everything that has already happened,” he said in an interview. He said it is perfectly, the hostages should be launched away from the crowds and cameras.

After her release, Mrs. Jooud was transferred to the Shaba Hospital in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. I also met the crowds in Israel, but they welcomed. “The mission of our lives has succeeded in returning to us,” her family said in a statement.

Mrs. Jews was twenty -eight years old when she was I took a hostage Along with her boyfriendand Ariel Kono, from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel. Mr. Konio is believed to be a prisoner in Gaza. The brother of Mrs. Yehuds, Dolv Yawud, Doctor, was identified last year He was also killed during the attack led by Hamas.

In a statement published by the hostage families Forum, an umbrella organization, the family of Mrs. Jehud urged Israeli officials to follow up the ceasefire agreement until all the hostages were released. “Everyone must be brought to the house immediately so that we can recover as a society,” he said.

Mrs. Berger, the soldier, was to the house from northern Gaza, in a “good” condition, according to Dr. Eitan Wrtestim, CEO of Pellinson Hospital, where she was transferred.

She was nineteen years old, and she was a monitoring at the Nahal Oz army base near the border with Gaza when the militants led by Hamas stormed the facility, killing more than 50 soldiers and kidnapped it and six other soldiers. Four of them were Export on saturday.

Dr. Westim said in a television statement that these four soldiers “are improving from day to day” in the hospital. He said they decided to stay in the hospital to keep the Mrs. Berger company within its early days of freedom.

Mr. Moussa, an agricultural expert, was 79 years old when he was kidnapped in Kibbutz Nir Oz after trying to do so The reason with the militants.

His partner, Efrat Katz, had hid inside a safe room in their home with her daughter and two of their visiting grandchildren, until they were also taken. They were kidnapped video That showed them crushing at the back of the Beckup.

Mrs. Katz was killed when an Israeli helicopter responded to the attack on the car. Her daughter and grandchildren were released in November 2023.

A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Sar, said in a statement that Thai men who underwent preliminary medical examinations on Thursday and found that they were in “good”.

“When we are happy, we cry,” said Filas Thani, the father of Mr. Pongsak, who was working on the fruit farm. “When we are sad, we cry too. But these are happy tears.”

Economic hardship motivated thousands of Thais, especially from the Ishaan area in northeastern Thailand, to take over agricultural jobs in Israel. Thai farmers working in Israel have suffered from Hamas 2023 attacks. At least 39 were killed and at least 31 were taken into account, according to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Twenty -three of them were released in November 2023. Two others died in captivity, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last May.

Hamas pledged to liberate at least 33 hostages, compared to more than 1500 Palestinian prisoners during the first stage of the ceasefire. On Thursday, Israel launched 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 32 of the provisions for life due to the deadly attacks against the Israelis.

Before the publications, the Palestinians stood outside a government entertainment center in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on Thursday, and their phones are comfortable comfortably obtaining updates to prisoners.

Samar Faisal stood in the imaginary winter air, trembling a lot of excitement like a cold. She was not believing. After more than 20 years in an Israeli prison, her brother was released.

“I am worried and prayed at the present time, I see it last,” said Ms. Faisal.

For some waiting outside the entertainment center, the anticipation has been reduced due to sadness.

Alaa Zubaidi was wearing black clothes on the anniversary of her older son, Muhammad, who said she was killed by an Israeli plane strike in September in her hometown, Jenin. Now, she was waiting for her husband’s launch, Zakaria from zhtriidiFor the past two decades, they have been similar, theater director and a prisoner who escaped. It was restored by the Israeli forces in 2019.

Finally, at about 7 pm, a series of buses arrived, carrying dozens of former Palestinian prisoners. Officials said sixty seven others arrived in Ramallah on Thursday, including 27 children. I arrived in 14 additional Palestinians to Jerusalem and nine in Gaza, while 20 were sent to Egypt.

In Bitonia, in the western West Bank, where the Red Cross buses carrying the liberated Palestinian prisoners arrived, the Palestinians threw stones at the Israeli forces, who fired loud bombs in response, and shots appeared on Arab television networks. It was not clear whether there were any victims.

The stock exchanges were the third swap in the first stage in the 42 -day truce that stopped fighting between Hamas and Israel. On Saturday, Hamas is expected to launch three other hostages for more Palestinian prisoners.

The Israelis said that about 250 people were kidnapped from Israel during the 2023 attack and about 1,200 people were killed. Israel responded by launching air strikes across Gaza. According to Ghazan Health staff, according to health officials in Ghazan, whose numbers are not distinguished by civilians and fighters whose numbers are not distinguished by civilians and fighters, the destruction was displaced millions of Palestinians and led to the death of more than 47,000, according to health officials in Ghazan, whose characters do not distinguish between Civilians and fighters.

On Thursday, months after Israel announced that it had killed the leader of the military wing in Hamas, Muhammad Dave confirmed, in an air strike, in a video statement.

Reports previously contributed Isabel Kirchnerand Avishag Sharash-Yunvuvand Liam was stacked and Fatima Abdul Karahah.