Qatar has confirmed a new hostage exchange. A total of 30 Palestinian prisoners will be released this Tuesday in exchange for the release of ten Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip thanks to the agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
“Among the people released from Gaza are a minor as well as nine women, an Austrian citizen, two Argentinians and a Filipino citizen,” Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al Ansari said on the social network X. The Israeli army indicated on the above-mentioned social network that, according to the Red Cross, at least twelve hostages were already on their way to Israel, including two foreign citizens.
Meanwhile in Israel The freedmen begin to tell the story through their relatives. Increasing information is being gained about the captivity of dozens of Israelis for more than 50 days. For example, both Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his brother Mahmoud, a senior general in the Islamist organization, visited some held in a tunnel, Israeli Army Radio reported.
Citing one of the prisoners released from Kibbutz Nir Oz, the report said that Mahmoud Sinwar met the hostages in an underground tunnel in the final weeks of their captivity, while Yahya did so the day after their capture. In the story of Nir Oz’s prisoner’s relative, it is said that Sinwar, the leader, told them that they would not harm them, but that they would exchange them for prisoners. No further details about their conversation were disclosed.
The army also reported this The hostages have been handed over to the Red Cross and the convoy is traveling through Egyptian territory towards the Karem abu Salem border crossing. The identity of those released will be checked “at the meeting point”.
Some parents and uncles said that some minors told them that they were forced to remain silent and that they would be threatened with machine guns if other children made noise. Others said they were forced to look at images of the massacres and abuses perpetrated by Hamas in their communities.
The Shifa dialysis unit begins operations
Hamas reported that the dialysis unit at Shifa Hospital has reopened and is accepting patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that 180 patients, including 22 on kidney dialysis, and seven health workers are still at the center that was attacked by Israel earlier this month and which Hamas has allegedly used as a cover to cover up its center. of military operations.
Israeli attacks to uncover weapons and a tunnel to its underground facilities led to the evacuation of hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people who had sought refuge there. The hospital ran out of food, water and electricity and could no longer accept patients.
The current ceasefire between Hamas and Israel allows for the import of some goods and supplies, more than 200 trucks per day, but they are not enough for the urgently needed Gaza population.