2023-11-22 22:39:18
No truce in the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas will be observed and no hostages will be released before Friday, Israeli authorities said.
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“Negotiations for the release of our hostages continue unceasingly.” The start of the release will not take place “before Friday”, indicated for his part the head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, in a press release.
Neither offered an explanation.
These announcements come as the truce and the first releases were expected on Thursday. The Israeli press had reported a plan to release the first hostages at midday, following a truce at 10:00 a.m. local time.
The government office even invited journalists to Tel Aviv late Wednesday evening to a press center dedicated to the “return of the hostages,” starting at noon this Thursday.
This agreement concerns the release of at least 50 hostages, women and children, referring to a “lull in the fighting” for four days. According to him, 50 hostages should be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners during the truce.
The agreement was announced on the 47th day of the war, triggered by an attack of unprecedented scale and violence in the history of Israel carried out on October 7 by Hamas on Israeli soil. According to the authorities, 1,200 people, the vast majority civilians, were killed.
Around 240 people were kidnapped on the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which took power in Gaza in 2007. A territory of some 360 km2 has been under siege since October 9 by Israel, which has cut off water supplies. electricity and fuel.
In retaliation for the October 7 attack, Israel, which promised to “annihilate” Hamas, relentlessly bombed the Gaza Strip, where more than 14,000 people were killed, including more than 5,800 children, according to the Gaza government. Islamist movement.
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