The director of the State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, who serves as spokesperson for the Egyptian government, confirmed this today twelve Thai citizens and thirteen Israelis taken hostage by the Islamist group Hamas, including children and women, They will be released under the ceasefire.

Today the first ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at 7 a.m. local time (5 a.m. GMT), after more than a month and a half of war, as part of an agreement for the release of 50 hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisonersall children and women.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society also announced the list of names this Friday 39 prisoners to be released today by Israel in exchange for the release of 13 Israelis, scheduled for 4:00 pm local time (2:00 pm GMT).

A total of 24 women and 15 teenage boys convicted of terrorism have been transferred from Dambon and Megiddo prisons to Ofer Prison in preparation for their release as soon as the hostages held captive by the Palestinian Islamist group are handed over to the Israeli army through the mediation of the Red Cross.

Ambulance drivers wait on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing to evacuate the wounded and sick from the Gaza Strip. Israel and the Islamist group Hamas have reached an agreement to release 50 people kidnapped in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners. Photo: EFE

Although convicted of terrorism, none of them has blood crimes to their name.

The ceasefire will last four days and could be extended to ten if Hamas transfers more kidnapped people. It will also serve for humanitarian access to the enclave.

Red Cross will extradite hostages to Israel before medical examination

The Israeli hostages held by the Islamist group Hamas will be handed over to members of the Red Cross in Gaza, who will in turn hand them over to representatives of the Israeli army before undergoing a medical examination to determine their health status .

“The Red Cross will cross the border with them and hand them over to representatives of the Israeli army, who will receive them and identify them physically and from the list to determine if they are the right people,” the statement said. advisor to the head of the Israeli police. Israel’s National Directorate for Public Diplomacy, Ziv Agmon.

Agmon noted that previously the thirteen hostages that Hamas will release today will be handed over to the Red Cross organization one by one or in groups.

He also explained that after their identification by members of the military, they will be examined by a doctor to determine their health status and the medical care they need, to decide whether they can be taken home or to which Israeli hospital they will be brought. transferred.

After the medical tests, the rescued can maintain first contact by telephone or video call – “under the supervision of professionals” – with their families, whom they can meet physically at the hospital to which they are transferred.

“Anyone who can go home, goes home. We still don’t know his medical condition,” he noted. (JO)