Hamas has released the first two hostages of the six he plans to deliver throughout the weekendon the occasion of the last exchange that the Islamist group and the Israeli army have set in this first phase of the high fire in Gaza. The liberated people They are the Israeli Abera Mengistu and such Shoham.
Mengistu, Israeli citizen of Ethiopian origin, was kidnapped by Hamas more than a decade ago, and Shham, Israeli of Austrian origin, kidnapped at the Kibutz Beeri in October 2023, They have been delivered to the Red Cross in Rafah, south of Gaza. Throughout today they spend a medical examination in an Israeli military base to verify that they enjoy a good health.
It is expected that in the next few minutes They are also released, in the Nuseirat refugee camp from the center of the strip, the captives Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, All taken by force of the Nova Festival, in addition to the Bedouin Hisham to Sayeddiagnosed with schizophrenia and who entered Gaza in April 2015. For its part, Israel will release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners captured from the outbreak of the conflict. With the release of these four captives, the exchange of the 25 hostages alive (in addition to 5 Thai unforeseenly) is completed in this first phase of the high fire.
This is the seventh exchange of hostages between Hamas and Israel in this first phase of high fire in Gaza. This war pause was agreed for 42 days, in order to approach La Paz in the Middle East. However, a week after expiring the high fire, there is still no agreement between the Islamist group and the Israeli army.
