Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with Israel to release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners from Israel and return four bodies to the Israeli hostages.
The agreement aims to break the deadlock that endangers the ceasefire agreement derails before the completion of the first phase.
Hamas said the plan to release Palestinian prisoners – which were stopped by Israel a few days ago – will now hand over the bodies of the hostages with the Israeli hostages.
The group did not specify when the exchange occurred. It was not initially officially confirmed by Israel.
However, some Israeli media of Israeli officials confirmed the agreement between the two belligerent parties announced by Hamas.
The Israeli era quoted an official who reported that the release would take place through Egypt on Wednesday.
Earlier on Sunday, Israel stopped the release of Palestinian prisoners outlined in the ceasefire agreement, noting that Hamas must first ensure that the “shaming ceremony” surrounding the release of Israel’s hostages ended.
The moratorium affects more than 600 Palestinian prisoners who will be released in exchange for six Israeli hostages.
Hamas ally Salah al-din Brigades said it will hand over a 50-year-old Israeli body on Thursday, Israeli media reported that the handover was the first in a ceasefire agreement between Israel Part of the phase and Hamas.
Large crowd Bibas family funeral parade
Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas and her two young sons were killed in prison in the Gaza Strip, where they were imprisoned in Israel on Wednesday morning.
According to the Israeli news website YNET, thousands of people lined up.
According to witnesses, many brought orange balloons to honor two turmeric boys, Kefir and Ariel, who were only 9 months and 4 years old at the time of the kidnapping, making them kidnapped during Hamas leadership The youngest hostage was attacked on October 7, 2023.
Many people raise signs and just say “sorry”. A woman who participated in the parade told the DPA that many onlookers were fighting back tears.
Israel's Times reported that the coffin was brought from Tel Aviv region to the south of the country, and the family will be buried in a private ceremony near the home of Nir Oz Kibbutz.
The eulogy is being broadcast live.
YNET reported that Shiri's husband, Kfir and Ariel's father, who were released in captivity in Gaza in early February, was driving south in a car carrying a coffin, according to YNET.
Shiri Bibas's body was handed over by Palestinian extremist group Hamas the day after her child's remains. Hamas initially handed over another coffin with the children to another Red Cross coffin containing the body of another unknown woman.
Mixed – both intentional or accidental – caused great anger in Israel.
After a forensic examination of the body, the military announced that the two children were brutally murdered by the kidnappers in November 2023. Hamas said they were killed in an Israeli air strike.
Hamas' display of the body was severely criticized internationally when it was played on stage by stage and masked fighters.
About 1,200 people were killed 16 months ago and about 250 were kidnapped in an unprecedented Hamas attack in southern Israel. The Holocaust triggered the latest Gaza war, in which thousands of Palestinians were killed.
