Hamas released three hostages in southern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza Cesefire Chaza between Israel and Hamas.
The truce of phase one of six weeks requires the release of 33 hostages and almost 2,000 Prisonersas well as him return from Palestinians a Northern Gaza and an increase in Humanitarian aid toward devastated territory.
Israel and Hamas are established next week to start negotiating a Second phase of the high fire, which requires freeing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely.
The war could be resumed in early March if an agreement is not reached.
Palestinian health authorities in Gaza also announced that those cut for a long time Rafah's border crossing With Egypt he would reopen on Saturday for thousands of Palestinians who desperately need medical attention, an advance that indicates the high fire agreement continues to win traction.
Yarden Bibas's family says: “There are no words to describe the relief of holding Yarden in our hands, hugging him and listening to his voice,” after his liberation from Hamas's captivity on Saturday.
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Bibas, 35, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz in OC. 7, 2023.
His wife, Shiri, and his two children, Ariel and Kfir, were also taken that day and are still captive in Gaza. It is unknown if they are still alive.
“Yarden has returned home, but the house remains incomplete,” the family wrote. “Yarden is a father who left his safe room to protect his family, bravely survived captivity and returned to an unbearable reality.”
The family said that “he continues with hope” and made a plea to the public to continue pressing for the launch of all the remaining hostages.
The Palestinians who were sentenced to years in prison for mortal attacks against the Israelis and who were released to the occupied Bank described hard conditions, purses and other abuses in prison.
Many appeared fragile while delighted on their return home on Saturday.
The Israeli prison service did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
In related news, the powerful Arab nations rejected the suggestion of US President Donald Trump to relocate the Palestinians of Gaza to neighbor Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian authority and the Arab League issued a joint statement on Saturday after a meeting of foreign ministers.
They said that they reject any plan to remove the Palestinians from their territories in Gaza already occupied.
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