Al Qassam Brigades militiamen, Hamas’s armed arm, have delivered to the Red Cross a The four women’s welded Israeli released As part of the truce with Israel, in a ceremony organized in the Palestine Square of the city of Gaza before hundreds of people and broadcast live by Al Jazeera.
Are Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levybetween 19 and 20 years, captured on October 7, 2023 at the Nahal Oz military base, one kilometer from the Gaza Strip, where they fulfilled the mandatory military service.
The young women, who appeared smiling and in good healthThey greeted from a stage mounted in the square to the hundreds of people and dozens of Palestinian militiamen of the Brigades of Al Qassam and Al Quds, the armed arms of Hamas and the Islamic jihad, gathered there to receive them.
About 9.30 local time (7.30 GMT) began arriving at the Milicianos square aboard vehicles, which were arranged in armed and masked ranks in front of a stage placed at one of the ends of the square, carrying the emblems of both militias.
Two and a half hours later, four SUVs of the Red Cross arrived at the square and parked in front of the stage, after which four vehicles of the militias appeared, Before hundreds of gazaties carrying Palestinian flags and of the militias.
Two Red Cross workers left their cars and took the stage to sign a document with the militiamen, after which hostages left the smiling vehicles.
They then went up to the stage, where the phrase was read in Hebrew “The Zionimo will not win”and greeted the public raising their arms.
The Red Cross vehicles will now take them to the territory of Israel, where they will meet with their families at a point prepared by the Army near the enclave.
That will happen at the reception point of the Reim military base, about 7 kilometers from the border with the Gaza Strip and where the first three hostages were released last Sunday.
Liberated women They were together in the military base of Nahal Ozjust a kilometer from Gaza, when the Palestinian militiamen headed by Hamas attacked Israeli territory, killing almost 1,200 people and kidnaping another 251.
Israel will release 200 Palestinian prisoners
In exchange for the release of the four women, the Palestinian Prison Commission (PPSMO) spread the list of 200 imprisoned Palestinians that will be released by Israel as part of the agreement, of which 120 were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The PPSMO recorded that, from those sentenced to life imprisonment that will be released81 belonged to Hamas, 23 to the Islamic jihad, 13 to the Fatah secular movementtwo to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and one to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
On the list is the longest Palestinian in an Israeli prison, Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Hamid al tos, from Bethlehem, who has been in prison since 1985 and is 69 years old.
Of the kidnapped on October 7, 91 are still in Gaza
After their release, they will remain 87 hostages in gaza. Israel estimates that at least 35 are dead.
Having not yet contributed a list of the kidnapped hostages that are still alive, the state of the captives that Gaza will leave will be unknown.
On January 4, Hamas spread a video of Liri Albag albag, in which the young woman detailed that she had been in the strip for 450 days, although the recording was not dated.
When the four soldiers come out, There will be three women in Gaza from the list of 33 that Hamas must release During the first phase of the agreement: Berger herself, Shiri Silberman, 33; and Arbel Yehud, 29.
In November 2023, Islamic jihad said Silberman, who was kidnapped with her husband, Yarden Bibas, and her children Ariel and Kfir, 5 and 2 years old, died in an Israeli attack, although the army never confirmed this information .