Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and 80-year-old men, as well as five Thai citizens during the next issue of the hostages planning on Thursday, officials from Israel and Hamas said.
Officials called Israeli women 29 years old, 29, 19th Agam Berger, and a man, like Moses, 80 years old. Officials who spoke with the Associate -Press on Wednesday, provided anonymity because they had no right to speak to the media, stated that the hostage families approved the publication of their names.
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The identity of Thai citizens was not immediately known. A number of foreign workers were captured together with dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers during October 7, 2023 who attacked the war.
According to Israeli officials, there are 89 hostages – both alive and dead – still in gas, including seven double US citizens: Keit Zigel, 65 years old, with Chapel -Hill, North Carolina; Sagui Dekel-Chan, 35 years old, grew in Bloomfield, Connecticut; and Edan Alexander, 19 years old, from Tenofley, New Jersey. Four other Americans are assumed to be killed. It remains unclear if any of the Americans can come out.
Expected Issue on Thursday will uphold impetus the fragile ceasefire Between Israel and the Hamas militant group, which began earlier this month and stopped for a 15-month war in Gaza. As part of the Hamas deal is Release the hostages In exchange for freedom for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
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Initially, the release on Thursday was not planned, but it occurred as a result of the confrontation between Israel and Hamas over the hostage identity released last weekend.
Israel demanded that Yehud, a civilian, be part of this group, and when it was not released, Israel continued the movement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians seeking to return to return to return to return What is left of their homes in the war caused by the north of Gaza.
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International mediation efforts brought additional issue on Thursday and cleared the way For the Palestinians, transfer to the north. Another issue is planned on Saturday, which Netanyahu's office said he would release men's hostages. Dozens of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons must be released on Thursday and Saturday.
The pause in the battles exposed the extension of the destruction caused by the city landscape in Gaza, which caused the proposal to Trump over the weekend that neighboring Jordan and Egypt Take moved Palestinians.
Earlier, on Wednesday, Egypt, an important US ally, rejected Mr. Trump's proposal.
The idea has long been deviated from the two countries and the Palestinians themselves, because, according to them, it will undermine the concept of Palestinian statehood and instability in their states.
Mr. Trump said on Saturday that he was calling Egypt and Jordan to accept people from Gaza to “we just remove it all”, calling the territory “a place of demolition.”
Mr. Trump said he calls on the leaders of both countries that are key allies for the US in the Middle East and a major US aid recipient in the region, to accept the idea, saying that relocation could be a temporary or long term.
It is unclear whether Mr. Trump can force Egypt or Jordan to agree, but in the early days in office and in the company threatens hefty tariffs against US allies to make your way.
In his first public comments, since Mr. Trump came up with a proposal on Saturday, Egyptian President Abdel Fatta El Sisi called this idea “injustice” that Egypt would not participate.
At a press conference in Cairo with a visit to the Kenyan president, El Sisi said the Palestinians' transfer is “never allowed or not allowed.”
“The decision of this issue is a two-state decision. It is the creation of a Palestinian state,” he said. “The decision is not to remove the Palestinian people from their place.”
He said his government would work with the Trump administration to reach peace “, based on a two -state decision” between Israel and Palestinians.
The Gaza war has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilian residents and combat participants. The fighting eliminated huge areas of gas, moving about 90% of 2.3 million people, often several times.
During the attack on Israel in 2023, which started the war, Hamas took 250 people hostage and killed about 1200.
The theme of the movement was recurrent in the history of Palestine, and the idea to remain unwavering on Earth is an integral element of the Palestinian identity. Palestinians are afraid that if they leave their land, they will never be allowed to return.
These fears were instituted by the far -right members of the Israeli government who support the restoration of Jewish settlements in Gaza, from which Israel has abandoned troops and settlers since 2005. Netanyahu says the idea is unrealistic.
Egypt and Jordan concluded peace with Israel, but support the creation of a Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Eastern Jerusalem. They are afraid that the permanent resettlement of the gas population can make it impossible.
Egypt and Jordan receive billions of US dollars every year. Military aid to Egypt and Israel was released from freezing US funding for global assistance programs.