The release of 4 soldiers from Gaza as part of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

The Palestinian Armed Hamas movement handed over four hostages hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross today, Saturday.

The four were taken to a platform in Gaza City, amid a large crowd of Palestinians, surrounded by dozens of members of the gunmen. Women and smiled before they were taken out of the ICRC vehicles that took them to the Israeli forces.

The Israeli army said it had received the four in Gaza. They are released for 200 Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire agreement, which aims to end the 15 -month war in Gaza.

The four soldiers – Kareena Arif, Daniela Jiloua, Nama Levi and Liri Albaj – were all stationed at a observation point on the outskirts of Gaza and was kidnapped by Hamas fighters who invaded their base during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

A video clip of their kidnapping in May showed the five recruits, wearing sleepwear, stunned and some of them bleed, and they are bound and gathering in a jeep. The footage was obtained from cameras that were worn by the gunmen who attacked the Nahl Oz base in southern Israel, where women worked as observation.

The Israeli Ministry of Health said that after they were reunited with their families at an Israeli military base near the Gaza border, the release hostages will be transferred to a hospital in central Israel.

Hamas said that 200 prisoners will be released on Saturday as part of the exchange process. Among them are members of the Islamic Jihad movement, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and some of them are sentenced to life imprisonment.

The official Egyptian television reported that Israel had already released 70 Palestinian prisoners in Egypt.

The exchange that took place on Saturday will be the second since the start of the ceasefire last Sunday and Hamas handed three Israeli civilians compared to 90 Palestinian prisoners.

The ceasefire agreement, which was reached months after the intermittent negotiations by Qatar and Egypt and with the support of the United States, led to the cessation of the fighting for the first time since only one -week truce in November 2023.

Israel says Hamas does not adhere to the release plan

After the release of Saturday, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai said in a post on the X site that Hamas had not committed to the ceasefire agreement to release Israeli civilians first. Israel was expecting the release of Erbil Jews, a civilian detained as hostage, on Saturday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not allow the Palestinians to cross to northern Gaza until Jews were released.

“We are determined to return the Erbil Jews, the Israeli citizen who was kidnapped from Nir Oz (Kibbutz), as well as Sherry Pipas and her two children Kfir and Ariel, who are very concerned about their safety,” said Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari. He said.

An official in Hamas told Reuters that Jews will be alive and will be released next Saturday.

In the first stage of six weeks of the deal, Hamas agreed to release 33 hostages, including children, women, the elderly, patients and wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, while the Israeli forces withdraw from some prisons. Their positions in the Gaza Strip.

At a later stage, the two sides are negotiating the exchange of the remaining hostages, including men of military service age, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, which became in a state of great ruin after fifteen months of Israeli fighting and bombing.

Israel launched its campaign against Gaza in the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7, when the militants killed 1,200 people and detained more than 250 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli statistics. Since then, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the health authorities there.

After the hostages were released, Rumi Gonin, Emily Damari, and the role of Steinberhar last Sunday and the restoration of the body of an Israeli soldier who has been missing for a decade, Israel says that 94 Israelis and foreigners are still detained in Gaza, although it is not clear how much they are still detained alive. .