On the fifth day of the temporary truce in the Gaza Strip, Hamas today, Tuesday, began handing over 10 Israeli prisoners to the Red Cross, and 30 Palestinians (women and children) will later be released, according to the truce agreement.
A Palestinian source familiar with the truce talks said Hamas handed over a batch of prisoners to the Red Cross, according to Reuters.
A source close to Hamas announced the exchange of lists containing the names of ten Israeli prisoners held by the Palestinian movement in exchange for 30 Palestinians.
The source told Agence France-Presse: “The names of the prisoners, 10 Israeli prisoners and 30 Palestinian prisoners, were exchanged without hindrance on the fifth day of the truce,” stressing that the exchange would also include “a number of foreign workers detainees in the Gaza Strip.”
In turn, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Club have published the names of the fifth batch of the prisoner exchange agreement, which will be released this evening, Tuesday. The list included 15 detained women and 15 minor children. that is, a total of 30, as part of the truce agreement.
Hamas yesterday released 11 Israeli women and children who arrived in Israel on Monday evening after more than seven weeks of captivity in Gaza in the fourth exchange under the original four-day truce, while 33 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel at dawn on Tuesday are arrived in Israel. East Jerusalem and the city of Ram. God in the West Bank.
The agreement – which extends the ceasefire for another two days – has raised hopes of further extensions, which would also allow more aid to enter Gaza, which has been subjected to weeks of Israeli bombing and a ground attack that led to the displacement of three-quarters of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes.
But Israel confirmed that it remains committed to destroying Hamas’ military capabilities and ending its 16-year rule in Gaza.
Interestingly, Hamas took around 240 hostages in the attack launched on October 7 in southern Israel, which triggered the war, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 15,000 Palestinians since the war began, according to the Health Ministry . in Gaza, and the killing of around 1,200 people in Israel, most during the Hamas incursion.