Abu Ubeida, a representative of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, said the group was ready to release up to 70 Israeli hostages in exchange for a five-day ceasefire.
“The enemy demanded the release of 100 women and children held hostage in Gaza. “We told the mediators that we could release 50 women and children within 5 days during the ceasefire, and that the number could eventually reach 70,” said Ubeida, pointing out “the difficulty of finding hostages held by different units and services.”
Last week, Hamas was negotiating through Qatari intermediaries over the release of Israeli women and children held by the movement, according to a representative of the military wing. In return, the group demanded the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained in Israel.
According to a representative of the Al Qassam Brigades, the ceasefire reached should include “a ceasefire and allowing humanitarian aid to arrive.”
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly in Hamas statedHe said the West had built an “unbreakable wall” between itself and the Arab world.
Source: Gazeta
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