Hamas released on Saturday (15) Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel Chen and Sasha (Alexander) brought in the Gaza Strip, while Israel released about 369 Palestinian prisoners in return, after mediators avoided a collapse of the fragile cease fire.
Three Israelis were taken to a stage in Khan Youis, alongside Palestinian militants, armed with automatic rifles, showed live images of the place. Then the hostages were taken back to Israel by the Israeli forces.
Shortly thereafter, the buses carrying the prisoners and Palestinian detainees set out from the arrest of Off in Israel to the occupied West Bank. The first came to Ramallah and was received by a crowd, with some people swinging Palestinian flags.
“We did not expected to be released, but God is great, God freed us,” said 70 -year -old muse Nawarwa in the city of Belém. He was fulfilling two perpetual arrest sentences for the death of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.
Buses carrying hundreds of released Palestinians, some signaling the windows, arrived later at the European Hospital in Khan Youis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Some of the Palestinians were serving long penalties for involvement in suicidal attacks and other actions that killed dozens of Israeli during the second Palestinian intifada in the 2000s. Others were arrested for killing Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
Some of them, like Hassan Ewis, will be able to return to their homes. Others, like your brother, must be deported to Egypt.
EWIS records at the Israeli Ministry of Justice include explosives and attempting and enforcing homicides. He stated that the conditions in jail were difficult, and that the Palestinians did not receive enough food.
Some of the Israeli hostages who have returned to the country since January 19 have also reported having been deprived of food, and was for months in tunnels, without seeing daylight, and being subject to physical and psychological abuse.
Some Palestinians who have been released are returning to the place, which have not seen for years, when the territory had not yet been reduced to ruins by Israeli bombings in the 15 months of war. But most were arrested after Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.
