2023-11-26 11:13:25
Cover image: Relatives of Omer Neutra, Hamas hostage, during the rally in Tel Aviv’s “Hostages’ Square” to demand their release, on the eve of the 50th day since the October 7 attacks. Tel Aviv, November 25, 2023. Lucien Lung / Riva Press for “LE MONDE”
Thirteen Israelis and four Thais were released from Gaza on Saturday evening, November 25. In separate statements, the Israeli army and the spokesperson for the Qatari foreign ministry, Majed Al-Ansari, announced that seventeen hostages had been released and handed over to the Red Cross, before returning to Israel via Egypt. Further releases are planned for Sunday followingnoon, the third day of truce in the war between Israel and Hamas.Thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners, women and adolescents under the age of 19 imprisoned by the Jewish state, were immediately released on Saturday evening. Celebrations took place in the West Bank.Six Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army on Saturday evening in the West Bank, reported the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the Israeli army was operating in the West Bank, and in Jenin in particular, “blocking and preventing EMS crews from reaching the injured and continually searching ambulances”. The organization said the troops “besieged the Jenin public hospital and the Ibn Sina clinic”.Filled with water, food and medicine, 248 trucks entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing point, in the south of the Palestinian enclave, on Friday November 24 and Saturday November 25, in the early days of the truce concluded between Hamas and Israel.The agreement reached Wednesday between the Israeli government and the Islamist group provides for the exchange of fifty women and children detained by Hamas once morest Palestinian prisoners, as well as“a lull in the fighting” for four days.In London, the mobilization in support of the Palestinians continues with tens of thousands of Britons who marched once more on Saturdaycalling for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.The latest Hamas report, published on Wednesday, states that 14,854 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments of Gaza since the start of the war. Among the deaths recorded to date are 6,150 children, specifies the Islamist movement. In addition, 36,000 people were injured, according to the same source.
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