Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Hamas had agreed to release the remaining six hostages from the first phase of the ceasefire agreement on Saturday.
As of Monday, 14 hostages had still been released in the first stage of 70 of the 70 hostages. Six were known to be alive, but whether any of the six or two remaining children were hostages, Ariel (5) and Kfir (2) Viva, were among them. is not yet known. (Hamas) I insisted The children and mother were dead on Tuesday. Their father, Yalden, was released a few weeks ago. ) The remaining 56-year-old alive and dead were released as part of the second phase of the ceasefire contract and are still in negotiations.
The original contract for the first phase showed hostage releases would be widespread over seven weeks, but several are released each week, but Netanyahu pushes Hamas to release live hostages faster I tried so hard.
He appears to have been successful through consultations with Hamas, mediated by the Egyptian government in recent weeks.
In a statement, Netanyahu's office said (translated from Hebrew by government news outlets).
The six living first stage hostages were understood in Cairo negotiations in response to the release of Saturday.
Four dead hostages will be returned to Israel this Thursday. Four additional dead hostages are expected to be returned to Israel next week, pursuant to the contract.
Netanyahu has long faced great political pressures on domestic political pressures to reach a ceasefire contract, but until recently Hamas was the main obstacle to achieving that.
That pressure only increased as President Donald Trump said he “looks like a Holocaust survivor” after some of the released hostages returned from Gaza in recent weeks. Hamas is also facing additional pressure as a result of hostage abuse.
That's what Israel is It is reportedly Negotiations will begin immediately in the second phase of the transaction.
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