The office of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahuhas celebrated this morning the release of three Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, in the fifth exchange under the agreement with Hamas. However, once the images of their release -in which they see the hostages clearly malnourished-, he warned that there will be reprisals.
“The shocking images that we have witnessed today will not have no response,” said Netanyahu’s office, which is traveling in the United States.
The hostages are emaciated and malnourished
The three Israelis released today, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, have appeared very thin, With serious countenance and aged After more than a year of captivity in Gaza. Hamas militiamen have presented the three hostages forcing them to go to stage and showing them before the cameras, before being delivered to the International Committee of the Red Cross (Ciccr).
Then they have been delivered to the Israeli army, which has transferred them to a base in southern Israel where they will pass a medical examination Initial and will meet with their families, before being taken to the hospital.
In a subsequent message, the president’s office said Netanyahu has ordered to “take consistent measures” to the “difficult situation of the three kidnapped already repeated rapes of Hamas.”
The images of “a crime against humanity”
“This is how you see a crime against humanity “, The Israeli President has said, Isaac Herzog, in a statement in which he encourages everyone to “look directly” to the three released.
Herzog celebrated the fight of the families of the Israeli kidnapped for bringing them back home and insisted that Complete all phases of the high the fire agreement With Hamas “it is a humanitarian, moral and Jewish duty.”
Families express their dismay for the state of hostages
The families Of those released, they have also expressed their dismay at the demaciously state of the three hostages, as seen during a ceremony that the forum of hostage and missing families has denounced as especially “disturbing.”
“This is another clear and painful test that leaves no doubt that There is no time to lose to free the hostages “the organization said in a statement collected by the ‘Times of Israel’.
16 Israeli hostages have been released
Since the stop the fire in Gaza, 16 Israeli kidnapped and five Thai They have been released in exchange for more than half a thousand Palestinian prisoners.
In exchange for the Israelis released this Saturday, they will be released 183 Palestinian prisoners and detainees In Israeli prisons, including 111 Gazati who were arrested in the strip after the attacks of October 7, 2023.
