Hamas released two hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile ceasefire agreement with Israel.
The man was identified as Tar Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengäthu, 39. Video footage showed that he appeared frail, scared and scared when taken to the stage in front of the crowd while being caught between masked gunmen. They were handed over to the Red Cross and on their way to the IDF forces.
Four more hostages — Omer Wenkert, 23; Omer Shem Tov, 22; Hisham Al-Sayed, 36; Elijah Cohen, 27, was also expected to be released on Saturday.
Two hostages – Mengistu and Arcede – are civilians who were detained since entering Gaza over a decade ago, long before the war began attacks on October 7, 2023, and attacks on Israel urged the army. Retribution from the Israeli army.
This leaves a delicate ceasefire contract reached a month ago despite recent revelation that the body of hostage Siri Vivas was not initially returned to Israel as promised by Hamas. Because of that.
The ruins of the two mothers killed, Silvivas, are said to have returned to Israel after Hamas' broken promise
On Thursday, February 20, 2025, the boy holds a weapon as he stands next to a Hamas fighter jet standing before handing over four bodies to the Red Cross of Karnnis on the Gaza Strip. (AP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas would “pay in full” for the allegedly handing over the body of a Palestinian woman from Gaza, not the body of an Israeli hostage. The hostage sons Ariel and Kufia Vivas – the lives of those who were oded were returned by Hamas on Thursday.
At the end of Friday, Hamas said it had handed over Sili Vivas' body to the Red Cross, confirmed that he had received the body of a human within Gaza and transferred it to Israeli authorities. Vivas' family confirmed her identity early on Saturday.
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The Red Cross vehicle arrives on Thursday, February 20, 2025 to collect ffin containing four bodies handed over by Hamas militants in Kaannis on the Gaza Strip. (AP)
Hamas said he “has no interest in withholding the bodies he owns.” The terrorist group said the dead hostages handed over on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023 were killed, and the bodies may have been misidentified due to artillery fire in the area.
The poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was lured to Gaza on October 7, 2023, on Friday, February 21, 2025, along with her husband and two young sons, on October 7, 2023 . (AP)
According to Israeli military, the terrorist group also killed Ariel and Kufia Vivas “with naked hands.”
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Rep. Daniel Hagali said forensic analysis of the body of the boy Bibass showed Hamas “didn't shoot the boy” but “killed them with their bare hands” and “hiding these atrocities “I committed a terrible act because of this.” Hagari said Lifshitz was killed by prisoners in Gaza.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
