Hamas announced the release of three more Israeli hostages on Sunday evening. In response, Israel announced that from Monday morning Palestinian civilians could return to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
On the decision of Hamas and Israel they informed the authorities Runny nose acting as an intermediary in conversations. Hamas also informed on Monday morning that he gave the mediators information about hostages who would be released as part of the first phase of implementation of the provisions of the agreement on interrupting the fire.
The release of subsequent hostages and enabling the Palestinian return to the northern part of Gaza was confirmed by the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel signed a weapon suspension agreement with HamasAbir Sultan/PAP/EPA
The Netanyahu office wrote in a message that “Israel will not tolerate any violations of the agreement.” “We will continue to work to get all our hostages, living or dead,” it was written.
Gaza zone. Thousands of Palestinians are waiting to come back
“In connection with the agreement, Israel allowed Palestinians to return to the northern Gaza Zone from Monday morning,” the Associated Press agency informed.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians who gathered on Sunday in the area of ​​the Netzarim corridor planted by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, began to cross it on Monday morning.
The return to the destroyed part of the Palestinian exclava, whose total evacuation of Israel ordered in the first days of the war with Hamas, delayed a few days, because the parties accused of mutually violating the conditions negotiated in mid -January.
Israel's decision, made with the participation of nose mediators and Egyptwill allow about 650,000 Palestinians to return to the northern part of the enclave. It is largely a result of 15 months of Israeli bombing.
War in the Gaza Strip
The war in the Gaza Strip began in October 2023, when Hamas conducted an attack on Israel. As a result, 1,200 people were killed and over 250 were taken prisoner. According to the data provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, from the start of the conflict killed by the Israeli armed forces, over 47,000 Palestinians have been.
Gauze zonePAP/EPA/MOMAMMED SABER
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