Hamas will release four of the captive soldier women in Gaza on Saturday

Chijioke Obinna

Hamas will release four of the captive soldier women in Gaza on Saturday

The Al Qasam brigades, Hamas’s armed arm, have confirmed that the next four hostages that will be released on Saturday as part of the high -fire agreement are Four of the women soldier They are still retained.

The prime minister’s office, Benjamín Netanyahu, has assured that “a list of kidnapped women has been received by the mediators” and that Israel will answer later. For its part, the Israeli government has to publish the list of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons that will be released in return.

According to the details of the agreement, Israel will release 50 prisoners for each welded woman Let Hamas release, so it is expected that on Saturday they will be put in liberated 200 of those imprisoned. This exchange and liberation of hostages corresponds to the first phase of the three that form the stop to fire in the conflict.

They were observers of the Nahal Oz military base

The soldier women who will be released are Liri Albag, 19 years old; Karina Ariev, 20; Daniella Gilboa, 20; and Naama Levy, 20. The fifth that remains in the enclave, Agam Berger, will not be released at the moment.

These women were destined as observers in the military base of Nahal Oz, on the border between Israel and Gaza on October 7, 2023, the day the Palestinian militiamen headed by Hamas crossed the border and killed almost 1,200 people in Israeli territory and 251 were kidnapped.

This base It was one of the first points attacked by Hamás, given its proximity to Gaza (1 kilometer away). There, the militias of Hamas killed 66 soldiers, including the Spanish-Israelí Maya Villalobo.

That day, It was the second at the base for Liri Albag: “He didn’t even know where he had to go, or what to do before an attack of those dimensions,” their sisters told Efe last July.

The state in which they are found is not known

The work was to monitor the Suspicious movements of the militiamen Next to the border with the objective of guaranteeing the safety of nearby communities and cities. These observers had warned months before training, kidnapping drills and military exercises of Hamas militia and other groups in Gaza.

Hamas has not contributed a list of kidnapped hostages that are still aliveso the state of these four welded women is unknown. Although, on January 4 Hamas did spread a video of Liri Albag albag, although the recording was not dated what is not known if it is that same day.

When the four soldiers come out, There will be three from the list of 33 that Hamas must release in the first phase of the agreement: Agam Berger; Shiri Silberman, 33; and Arbel Yehud, 29.

Chijioke Obinna

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