The Prime Minister’s officr onfirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Israel and Hamas reached a deal to free six live hostages this Shabbos, including Israeli civilians Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed who have been held in Gaza for over a decade.
Hamas announced that it will release four bodies on Thursday, including the two Bibas children.
The families of Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen, Tal Shoham, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed announce that they have been informed by Israeli authorities that their loved ones are slated to be released by Hamas on Shabbos.
Al-Sayed and Mengistu have been captive in Gaza for over a decade, after entering the Strip of their own accord. All the others were abducted on October 7, 2023.
Earlier on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official stated that Israel is preparing to begin allowing the entry of hundreds of trailers and heavy equipment into the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of six live hostages on Shabbos.
Hamas pushed for the release of six live hostages on Shabbos to ensure the release of the 47 terrorists who were released in the Shalit deal and were re-arrested.
As part of the agreement, Israel committed to allowing trailers and heavy construction equipment into the Gaza Strip after rigorous checks. As part of the negotiations, and subject to Hamas’s adherence to the agreement, Israel will begin allowing this in a controlled and gradual manner.”
According to the agreement in place, Hamas is scheduled to release four bodies on Thursday and three live hostages on Shabbos. However, Israel had been making much efforts to increase the number of live hostages released in the current phase of the deal in the wake of harrowing reports of the inhumane conditions and abuse the male hostages are enduring in Gaza.
In exchange, Israel plans to allow the entry of hundreds of trailers into the Strip, intended to serve as mobile homes for the Gazan residents whose homes were destroyed, along with heavy machinery, intended to clear the rubble in the Strip and open roads.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The release of every single hostage simply cannot soon enough including teh 2 little babies, and yes:- hamas is so petrified of the Hell from President Donald Trump שליט”א hanging over their heads.
When the evil barbarians of Hamas agree to release 6 rather than 3, you know that they are getting a great and rather unanticipated deal in return. Heavy equipment, caravans and 47 sworn murderers as a bonus. Some hell this sounds like. How humiliating to be at the mercy of these savages, while they are simply reveling.
@147 I get it – he’s a friend of isreal’s and has been good for America, but please we need to make a collective effort to stop referring to Donald Trump with “שליט”א” ……that title is EXCLUSIVE for gedolim in Torah only!
Who is paying for the equipment?
147
See video of r shternbuch above