2023-11-28 05:24:00
The truce agreement and exchange of hostages for prisoners between Israel and Hamas, which began on Friday and expired today, will be extended for two more days, as announced by the Palestinian Islamist group and the government of Qatar (Europa Press/Contact/IDF)
The Minister of Defense of Israel, Yoav Gallant, assured this Monday that the Armed Forces (IDF) will resume the offensive on the Gaza Strip “with more force” when the current truce agreed with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) ends and that they will act “throughout” the Palestinian enclave.
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“It will be bigger and will develop throughout the Gaza Strip,” Gallant declared during a meeting with soldiers who have fought in Gaza held this Monday and reported by the Israeli press. “Everywhere I go they tell me ‘let’s complete the mission, let’s go to the end,’” Gallant said.
Thus, he has conveyed to them that the Government and the security leadership support them in this goal: “We are not going to stop until we are satisfied.”
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Gallant has acknowledged that the truce is helping Hamas to reorganize and rest. “They are going to find that they are a little more prepared, so first there will be bombs from the Air Force and then the projectiles from the tanks and artillery and the dogs from the D9 and finally the shots from the infantry fighters” , has explained.
The truce agreement and exchange of hostages for prisoners between Israel and Hamas, which began on Friday and expired today, will be extended for two more days, as announced by the Palestinian Islamist group and the government of Qatar.
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“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announces that it has been agreed with the brothers in Qatar and Egypt to extend the temporary humanitarian truce for two more days under the same conditions as the previous truce,” the group reported in a statement released through Telegram.
Delivery of the fourth group of hostages to the Red Cross
The spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Department, Majed al Ansari, wrote on his X social network account that “the State of Qatar announces that, as part of the ongoing mediation, an agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian truce for two more days in the Gaza Strip.”
So far, the Israeli Government has not commented on the extension of the truce.
This announcement comes shortly before the expiration of the agreement, which came into force last Friday at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and was scheduled to extend for four days.
Aside from some minor inconveniences, both sides have respected the pact, which has seen the release of hostages held captive in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7 following an attack by the Islamist group, which included the launching of more than 4,000 rockets and the infiltration of some 3,000 militants, who killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 240 in nearby Israeli communities. to the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s air, naval and ground forces have since counterattacked in the Palestinian enclave, where more than 14,800 people have already died, according to Palestinian authorities, most of them children and women, and it is estimated that more than 7,000 people are missing under the rubble.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Monday to extend the ceasefire in the war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip to allow the release of more hostages and give rise to “relief.” very necessary” for the Gazan population.
“I ask for an extension of the pause (in hostilities). This would allow much-needed relief for the population of Gaza and free more hostages,” declared the Norwegian politician at a press conference prior to the meeting of Alliance foreign ministers taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels.
Stoltenberg expressed his satisfaction that the truce in the conflict in the Middle East has led to the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the attack on October 7 once morest Israel and the delivery of “more humanitarian aid.”
(With information from EP)
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