After the first releases on Friday, Israel expects the second handover of hostages to take place this Saturday, according to the agreement reached on Tuesday with Hamas. The list of the following kidnapped people who are expected to be released by the Islamist organization has already been delivered to the Mossad in Doha, the capital of Qatar, which acts as a mediator and whose government has sent a delegation to Israel to follow up on the agreement. .
It is not ruled out that Hamas could also release another group of Thai hostages this Saturday, also kidnapped during the terrorist attack on October 7. After a discreet direct negotiation with the government of Thailand, also with the mediation of Qatar, Hamas yesterday released 10 Thai hostages and a Filipino who, apparently, was released by mistake, according to some Israeli media, because the kidnappers did not know your nationality.
The 24 released on Friday - of the nearly 240 kidnapped on October 7 - were transferred to hospitals in Israel, where they were reunited with their families. Eight of the thirteen Israelis spent Friday night hospitalized, under observation, if their condition was in danger. According to the agreement, the four-day truce that began early yesterday should allow 12 or 13 more Israeli hostages to leave their captivity in the following three days, until completing the agreed 50.
The Israeli Government has begun to distribute the first images of family reunions such as the case of
Aviv Asher, 2, his sister Raz Asher, 4, and their mother Doron, who returned to Israel last night to the designated compound at Schneider Children's Medical Center. The children's father was waiting for them there.
On the other hand, humanitarian aid continued entering Gaza this Saturday through the Rafah crossing, on the second day without combat of the four agreements.
As planned, Hamas yesterday released the first thirteen hostages of the group of 50 women and children agreed upon in Tuesday's agreement with Israel. What was not announced is that the Islamist organization also released ten Thai workers and one Filipino. The kidnapped people were handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in an undisclosed location in the south of the strip – probably in Khan Younis –, in the middle of a crowd of Gazans, and taken to the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt. There, those released underwent a first medical examination in ambulances and crossed the border line to be taken through Egyptian territory to the Kerem Shalom pass, on the border between Gaza, Egypt and Israel, where they entered Israeli territory and were taken into custody. of the army special forces and underwent a more exhaustive medical examination. They later flew by helicopter to different hospitals, where they were reunited with their families.
