“Negotiations for the release of the hostages continue non-stop”, however the release of some of them will not begin “before Friday”, the head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tchai Hanegbi, said for his part.
There will be no truce between Israel and Hamas and no hostages will be released before Friday, Israeli authorities said.
There will be no “pause” in fighting today, an AFP source in the Israeli government said on condition of anonymity.
“Negotiations for the release of the hostages continue unabated”, however the start of the release of some of them will not take place “before Friday”, the head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tchai Hanegbi, said in a bulletin of press that he made public.
Neither offered an explanation.
The declaration and announcement are being recorded while the ceasefire and the first hostage releases were expected today. Israeli media said the first hostages were planned to be released at noon, after the 10:00 am ceasefire.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had even invited journalists to Tel Aviv last Wednesday night, to a press center dedicated to the “return of the hostages” starting at noon today.
The agreement between the two sides provides for the release of at least 50 hostages, women and children, and a “cease” in hostilities for four days. In exchange for the fifty hostages, 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli detention centers are expected to be released, including women and children.
The agreement was announced on the 47th day of the war, which was triggered by an unprecedented raid by members of Hamas in southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, the deadliest attack since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, with some 1,200 dead, mostly civilians. according to the authorities.
Another 240 or so people were abducted on the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which took power in 2007 in the Gaza Strip, a small Palestinian enclave of about 360 square kilometers that has been under a suffocating siege by the Israeli army since October 9, which has included cutting off supplies with water, electricity, fuel, food and medicine.
Retaliatory operations by the Israeli army, whose leadership has vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, have killed more than 14,000 Palestinians, also the vast majority of them civilians, among them more than 5,800 children, according to the numbers of the Hamas Health Ministry.
Source :Skai
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