According to reports, a representative of the Quds Brigade, which is part of the Islamic Jihad group (an organization banned in Russia), said that it was ready to release two Israeli hostages for humanitarian reasons. RIA News.
“We announce that we are ready to release an (elderly) woman, Hanna Katsir, for humanitarian reasons related to her health, and a girl, Yagil Yaqub, for health-related reasons,” a Quds Brigade spokesman said.
According to him, these women will be released “if certain conditions are met to ensure the security of the Palestinian people.”
Before this, the heads of the US CIA and the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, on Thursday, November 9, discussed In Qatar, together with the country’s authorities, conditions were created for the release of 10-20 hostages held by the radical Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The situation in the Middle East has worsened since thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. More than two hundred hostages were captured.
On this day, Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel and announced the start of Operation Al Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country was at war.
The Israel Defense Forces operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. Israeli air forces launched strikes against hundreds of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s National Security Council decided to cut off water, food, supplies, electricity and fuel supplies to the strip.
Formerly at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said about the hostages’ attempts to escape from captivity of the Palestinian Hamas movement.