There will be no truce in Gaza Strip and no hostages will be released before Friday, Israeli authorities announced, 24 hours after the deal with Hamas for four-day truce.
There will be no “pause” in fighting today (Thursday), an AFP source in the Israeli government said on condition of anonymity.
“Negotiations for the release of the hostages continue unabated”, however the release of some of them it won’t happen “before Friday”he emphasized for his part the head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tchai Hanegbiin a press release he released.
Neither offered an explanation.
The statement and announcement are recorded while the ceasefire and the first hostage releases were expected today. Israeli media said the first hostages were planned to be released at noon, after the 10:00 am ceasefire.
THE government of Benjamin Netanyahu he had even invited journalists to Tel Aviv last Wednesday night, to a press center dedicated to the “return of the hostages” from noon today.
THE agreement between the two sides provides the release of at least 50 hostages, women and children, and a “cease” in hostilities for four days. In exchange for the fifty hostages, 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli detention centers are expected to be released, including women and children.
The agreement was announced on 47th day of the war which was triggered by an unprecedented raid by Hamas militants in southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, the deadliest attack since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, with some 1,200 dead, mostly civilians, according to authorities.
Another 240 or so people were abducted on the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which took power in 2007 in the Gaza Strip, a small Palestinian enclave of about 360 square kilometers that has been under a suffocating siege by the Israeli army since October 9, which has included cutting off supplies with water, electricity, fuel, food and medicine.
In the retaliatory operations of the Israeli army, whose leadership has vowed to “wipe out” Hamas, over 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, also the vast majority of them civilians, among them more than 5,800 children, according to the numbers of the Hamas Ministry of Health.
Source: News Beast
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