The Israeli army announced today that the sixth hostage was handed over to the international Red Cross, Gaza, based on Israel’s agreement with Hamas.

According to Israeli media, this is Hissam al -Sagid, an Israeli citizen who had entered the Gaza Strip ten years ago and was held since then.

Hissam al -Sauged

It will be transported out of the lane to a military facility near the Raim border community for an initial control.

Among the six hostages that Hamas released today in return with Palestinian prisoners was an Israeli Bedouin as well as an Israeli Ethiopian origin, held in Gaza for many years before the attack of October 7, 2023.

The 36 -year -old Hissam al-Sajend and the 39 -year -old Mengisto They are citizens who entered the Gaza Strip ten years ago and have been held since then.

Both have a history of mental illness, according to comments from their families and with a report by NGO Human Rights Watch in 2017.

Mengistou, who was born in Ethiopia and lived in the city of ASKELON, Southern Israel, passed through a highly barbarian spinach near Gaza beach in September 2014, while Sagid, an Israeli Bedouin nationality. passed on foot in Gaza from east in April 2015.

“Our family spent ten years and five months of unthinkable pain,” Mengistos’ family wrote in a statement. “During all this, there were uninterrupted efforts to return, prayers and appeals were made, sometimes silently, that they found no response today.”

Although Hamas described them as soldiers at some point, Human Rights Watch said that none of them were linked to the Israeli government or the army, but that they both used to walk long distances. It is not known why they entered Gaza.

“Why keep someone who did nothing wrong? He is a pacifist man who wanted to get to Gaza, he loves Gaza, he didn’t go there aggressively“Sayed’s father, Saaban al-Sajend, told the public Israeli radio this week.

“This was more painful for us than anything else.”

For years it was almost nothing known for the condition of the two men until Hamas released a video with Sajad lying on bed with an oxygen mask in June 2022 and Mengisto in January 2023 in an obvious attempt to put pressure on Israel to exchange them with Palestinian prisoners.

In addition to Sajent and Mengistou, Hamas was holding the corpses of two Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza War in 2014. The body of Saul was recovered by Israeli troops in Gaza last month, while Hadar Goldin is still in .

Release of another 3 hostages

In a new show, Hamas handed over to representatives of the Red Cross in Nuseirat of Central Gaza three Israeli hostages, Eliya Cohen, Omere Sem Tov and Omer Venrt.

Earlier on Saturday morning, two other hostages were released.

In shots released, Sem Tov is distinguished to kiss Hamas’ men smiling during his release.

It is noted that the liberation of the last group of prisoners is part of the seventh lot of the prisoners’ exchange agreement, and the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza.

Under the agreement, 602 Palestinian prisoners are scheduled to be released today, including 50 sentences of life imprisonment. Of those released, 445 had been arrested in the Gaza Strip after October 7th.

In the meantime, the Bibas family announced today that it had received “no details” from the Israeli authorities on how the Sirie Bibas and Ariel and Kfir’s children were killed during their hostage in Gaza after their corpses were returned to Israel.

“The family calls for no further details to be added about how Siri and the children were murdered by their kidnappers,” he said in a statement issued by the hostage families forum.

‘Yarden [Μπίμπας, ο πατέρας των παιδιών] And the family wants people to learn that it was murder, without further examination, “the text adds.

“Any publication of details (including how to treat the corpses) is contrary to the family’s wishes and we ask to be avoided,” the statement continues, clarifying that “the family has not received details from an official source” for the circumstances of their death.

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OR Hamas He returned the bodies of Ariel and Kiri Bibas on Thursday, who were 4 years old and 8.5 months respectively when they were abducted with their mother Siri Bibas during Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023 at Kibbuts Nir Oz in southern Israel .

Sirie Bibas’ body was finally returned to Israel on Friday night to Saturday.

Hamas claims that Siri Bibas and her two children were killed in November 2023 by an Israeli bombing in the place where they were held in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army announced yesterday that the two children “were killed brutally in November 2023 by Palestinian terrorists.” According to her, the killers acted “with bare hands”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced “horrible murders” committed by “monsters”.

“We did not apologize to you at this painful moment,” said Ophri Bibas, sister of Yarden Bibas, in a statement on Friday, accusing the Israeli prime minister of abandoning Sir Bibas and her children on October 7th and 20th. their.

Yarden Bibas, who was abducted by his wife and children, was released on February 1 in an exchange of hostages with Palestinian prisoners holding Israel under the truce agreement with Hamas.

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