Mystery still covers the time to release the 20 hostages that Hamas holds in her lane Gauzewhile the Israel In return, he will release Palestinian prisoners, shortly before a meeting for peace in the city of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with US President Donald Trump.
As part of the first phase of the plan presented by Donald Trump at the end of September to silence the weapons, the return to Israel of the 48 hostages, alive and dead will be parallel to the liberation from the Israeli authorities of 250 prisoners for “security reasons” – including many. They were captured in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
On the 4th day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the return of hostages will be a “historical event”, with mixed emotions, “sadness” and “joy”, is found by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The hostages will reach Israel Reim’s military base and will be in two phases.
Their arrival is foreseen “early in the morning”, according to Bedrosian, a spokesman for Netanyahu. Government expects the “20 living hostages will be liberated together (and delivered) at the same time to the Red Cross”.
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The Israeli authorities, however, discount that not all the bodies of hostages that have died today will be returned. In any case, a “international organization”, as agreed “in the context” of the ceasefire, will help “identify the (dead) hostages if they have not been found and released” within the day, according to Bentrosyan.
‘The war is over’
According to sources aware of this, Hamas “completed the preparations” for the liberation of the living hostages, but continued yesterday to demand that Palestinian leaders be released at the same time.
Israel, for its part, was expressed by Palestinian prisoners who were assigned to Two specific detention centersthey will be released only after confirming that the hostages were handed over to the Red Cross.
Donald Trump is expected in Israel at 09:20 (local time and time in Greece). After meeting with Nanny, he will see relatives of hostages and speech a speech at Kneset, in the Israeli Parliament.
“The war is over. Do you understand that? ”Trump said To reporters who accompanied him to the Presidential Airplane shortly after departure from Andrew Air Base.
For his part, Netanyahu thought that Israel was “huge victories, wins that have been detached from the whole world”, hurrying to add “I must tell you that the race was not over”.
Crowds of people are currently gathering at-hostages Square in Tel Aviv.
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‘Peace Summit’
After his short stay in Israel, Trump is expected in Egypt, where he will co -chair with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah al -Sisi In a “meeting for peace” in Gaza, with the participation of more than 20 other leaders of states and governments and UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres.
Among the stakes: The Gaza Strip Governance, which has suffered a huge disaster after two years of war.
The countries that have been interrupted to close the ceasefire agreement on the Gaza Strip intend to sign a document that will guarantee its implementation, a diplomatic source said, adding that the countries that will be signed will be “the US, Egypt, Qatar and possibly Turkey”.
No Israeli official will be in Sharm El Sheikh, no Hamas representative. Iran, who has been supporting the latter for years, has made it clear that she is also not going to attend the Summit.
Along with the progressive withdrawal of Israeli army units, which says it controls 53% of the Gaza Strip, the US plan provides a later phase in which Hamas will no longer exercise power in Gazawhere she took over the government in 2007, and her arsenal will be destroyed.
Hamas executives, however, exclude her disarmament.
Based on the US plan, the governance will take on the “Palestinian Committee”, which will be “technocratic and apolitical” under “supervision and control of a new international transition body” led by US President Trump himself.
‘We don’t want to live in jungle’
In the Gaza Strip, AFP journalists saw Sunday citizens go to markets, where basic nutritional prices have declined as the ceasefire is expected to be accompanied by relaxation of the exclusion imposed by Israel.
Trucks with assistance entered from the Kerem Salomin southern Israel. Other trucks were waiting for Rafa, a nearby crossing point on the border of the Gaza and Egyptian strip.
Some loads were looted, according to eyewitnesses.
“We do not want to live in jungle, help must be safely delivered and distributed with respect to the world,” said Mohammed Zarab, a young Gaza resident in front of the boxes on the ground along road.
The war triggered Hamas’ unprecedented raid in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, when 1,219 people died on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to a report by the French Agency based on official data.
On that day 251 were abducted by 251 people from Hamas’ military arm and allies.
In the large -scale Israeli military retaliation military operations that followed, at least 67,806 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, were killed, according to the Numbers of the Hamas Government Ministry of Health, which the UN considers credible.