2023-11-22 22:45:02
While the release of hostages held by Hamas since October 7 was to begin on Thursday, according to the ceasefire agreement, this was postponed until Friday.
No Israeli hostage held by Hamas will be released before Friday, announced the head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, while the truce and the first releases were expected on Thursday. “Negotiations for the release of our hostages continue unceasingly.” The start of the release will not take place “before Friday”, he indicated in the night in a press release, without giving explanations.
He does not mention the truce, scheduled for Thursday morning at 10 a.m. local time, according to an Israeli official contacted by AFP. But the news agency reports that Israeli authorities have claimed thatthere will be no truce in the fighting either between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas before Fridaycontrary to what the protagonists had initially announced.
The Israeli press reported a plan to release the first hostages at noon. The government office even invited journalists to Tel Aviv at the end of the evening to a press center dedicated to the “return of the hostages”.
Ceasefire agreement for four days
The Israeli government had indicated that it had approved this agreement which concerns the release of at least 50 hostages, women and children, citing a “lull in the fighting” for four days. According to him, 50 hostages should be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners during the four-day truce.
The agreement was announced on the 46th 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 childrenaccording to the government of the Islamist movement.
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