After a tense week marked by the confusion after Donald Trump’s statements about Alto El Fuego, this Saturday Hamas has fulfilled his part of the pact and has released the three Israeli hostages who had promised to free. As in previous exchanges, the prisoners have been taken to the stage created by the Islamist group and, finally, have been delivered to the International Red Cross.
Although the agreement has been saved on this occasion, its continuity is not insured. Hamas and Israel have not yet begun indirect negotiations for the second phase of the pact, which should have begun at the beginning of February. The first phase concludes on March 1 and, if the parties and mediators have not yet agreed the details of its application, the truce could collapse.
It is speculated that Netanyahu seeks to extend the first phase of the agreement, six -week, and obtain the release of all hostages. In this way, it would delay the withdrawal of the Israeli troops of the Gaza Strip, stipulated in the second phase of the complex three phases agreement.
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz wanted to welcome his three compatriots released this Saturday through A publication in the social network X (Before Twitter) and has affirmed that “Israel hugs you and is happy to see you gathered with your families.”
Katz, who recalled that the Israeli army is deployed and prepared for any scenario, also thanked the US president Trump, for being with Israel and has advanced that they will continue working with the president for the release of the rest of Israelis and for “that the threat of Palestinian terrorism is crushed and eliminated from Gaza.”
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel Benjamín Netyahu’s prime minister will keep a security consultation tonight to discuss the rest of the high fire agreement.
Meanwhile, Israel has released the 369 Palestinians agreed in this new exchange, something that already advanced this week that he intended to meet. “Netanyahu’s delay and his attempt to avoid the requirements of the agreement are to save himself and his government, we will not allow the agreement to fail,” Hamas warned this week in a statement.
According to a statement from the Israel Prison Service, several of the released Palestinians have been forced to dress with sweatshirts in which, in Arabic, you could read “never forgive, never forget” with a David star. This decision has been taken by the head of this service, Kobi Yaakobi, that is being investigated for various crimesamong them that of osbstruction of justice, for Israeli justice.
Around a dozen Palestinians who were imprisoned in Israeli prisons have been released early in the morning in Ramala, in the occupied West Bank, where they were welcomed by dozens of their compatriots and taken by shoulders after getting off the minibus that transported them through the surrounding streets to a building where they were subjected to a medical check -up.
After this first exam, four of the nine Palestinians released in Ramala have had to be transferred to the hospital by requiring medical care, the Red Crescent reported in a statement.
About an hour later, several buses accompanied by Red Cross vehicles entered from Israeli territory to the city of Rafá, in the south of the strip, and then moved to the European Hospital of Gaza, where it is planned to be submitted to medical tests and other exams to confirm their identity to this group of 333 Palestinians released today by Israel.
The prisoners appeared as a general rule with coats and jackets other than the sweatshirts that the Israeli prison service imposed before leaving jail, in which the phrase was read in Arabic “never forgive, never forget.”
Palestinian media have reported this Saturday that one of the prisoners was transferred to Gaza before the arrival of buses in an ambulance of the Red Cross due to its weak state of health.
In exchange for the release of the three Israeli in Gaza, Israel plans to release a total of 369 Palestinians on Saturday. The majority (333) have been taken to the strip and only nine have been transferred to Ramala, as reported by the Qatarí to the Jazeera television network.
The other 24 Palestinian prisoners will be deported at first to Egypt and from there they can be distributed among Pakistan, Malaysia, Qatar and Turkey, as confirmed to Efe Qura Fares, the director of the Commission of Affairs of the Affairs of the detainees of the Palestinian Government. Two prisoners will also be transferred to East Jerusalem.
Türkiye and Egypt, reception places of released prisoners
Qura Fares has pointed to Efe that so far only Turkey, in addition to Egypt, has welcomed prisoners, and that the rest of the countries “are working on logistics elements” that guarantee the arrival of prisoners. The incorporation of Pakistan, Malaysia and Qatar to the list supposes for the politician an advance, since for weeks no Arab state agreed to welcome the deportees.
Among the Palestinians released this Saturday, 36 had life imprisonment. Many of them participated in attacks during the second Intifada (2000-2005), and were sentenced to as many life imprisonments as victims caused those attacks.
One of the best -known prisoners among those who will leave prison this Saturday is Ahmed Taleb Mustafa Barghouti, of Ramala, and known for being a very close advisor to the historic Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, whose release Israel Vetó during the negotiations of Alto Alto The fire in Gaza.
Ahmed Barghouti was sentenced to 13 perpetual chains plus 50 years in prison for their role as one of the leaders of the martyrs of Al Aqsa (Fatah’s armed arm) during the second intifada. He participated in attacks that ended the life of 12 Israelis and was arrested in 2002 with Marwan Barghouti.
The exchange progress despite chaos unleashed by Trump
All the chaos generated in recent days after the words of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who said that Israel should demand from Hamas the release of all the remaining hostages, more than 70 people, for this Saturday or, in case of Do not meet, put an end to the fire in Gaza.
After his words, the Netanyahu government was inaccurate about how many hostages they had to be released today, but a spokesman, David Mencer, finally confirmed on Thursday that the figure of three was maintained, as established by the initial pact. “There is an established framework for the release of our hostages,” said Mence.
The Palestinian movement Hamas stated that it would apply what was agreed with Israel and released three hostages, as planned, after the last minute negotiations with the mediation of Egypt and Qatar.
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