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Hamas liberated Israel’s hostages in return for the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange of the ceasefire that was broken on Saturday.
The three characters of Yarden Bibas, Oper Kalderon, and Keith Siegel were handed over to Gaza’s Israeli army and returned to Israel and reunited with their families.
A few hours later, Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners, and many people gathered in Ramalashi in Westbank and welcomed those who were liberated there. Others have been released overseas or abroad.
In an additional milestone for two weeks, the sick and injured Palestinians later left Gaza through the crossing point of Rapha Rapha. While the Israeli army was surrounded in May, the Israeli troops closed to the closed Egypt.
The six -week ceasefire is the first part of the complex three -stage trading that was driven by the US -led arbitrators who raised hope for the hostility of Gaza.
The 15-month war was the round of the most deadly fight in the history of Israel-Palestinian conflict, leaving Gaza as a ruin, consuming Israel society and bringing the Middle East to the just before the war.
Vivas (35) and Kalderon, a 54-year-old 54-year-old Kalderon, a dual-nation-Israeli-nation, is an attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, less than 2 kilometers from Gaza. ) He was confiscated with his family at Kibutz. war. The 65 -year -old Israeli Siegel was seized with his wife Aviva at KFAR AZA’s Kibbutz.
The two children of Calderon, Ezu and Sahard, were released in late 2023, like Aviva Siegel, were released during the war of war in war. But Viva’s wife, Siri and two children, Ariel and Combir did not come back.
In just nine months, KFIR BIBAS was the youngest hostage seized, and Shiri’s video became one of Hamas’s Israeli, as he and his four -year -old brothers were kidnapped.
Hamas argued that three people died in Israeli raids at the beginning of the war. Israeli officials continued to say that they could not verify this claim, but expressed great concern about destiny.
Palestinian prisoners, released on Saturday, included 72 people who were long sentenced to national security before October 7. The other 111 were detained in Gaza after Hamas’s assault and was held without trial, but it was judged that he did not participate in the attack. .
According to Israeli authorities, Hamas armed forces killed 1,200 people on October 7 and seized 250 hostages.
According to the Palestinian authorities, Israel responded with a destructive assault on Gaza, who killed more than 47,000 people.
In 2023, about 100 hostages were liberated during the armistice, and the minority was rescued by the Israeli army. Israel also recovered the bodies of various hostages. Before the exchange of Saturday, 82 hostages (at least half of the hostages were considered dead.
Overall, Hamas will launch 33 hostages in return in return with about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in the first stage of the contract. But Israeli officials said this week that eight out of 33, including women, children, sick people and the elderly, died.
Hamas War in the second stage where Israel and Hamas began to negotiate in the future.
The third and last stage includes the reconstruction of the dead hostage and the reconstruction of the dead.
