Hamas will delay the transfer of the second group of hostages until Israel “respects the agreement”

Hamas A first group delivered on Friday 13 Israeli hostages, twelve Thais And a Filipino to Israel, while the Israeli government released 39 Palestinians imprisonedwomen and young people under the age of 19.

This exchange is part of a temporary ceasefire between the two areas. This pause in the fighting, renewable and which seemed to be respected on Saturday, also includes access of humanitarian aid and fuel to Gaza.

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Hamas would hand over the second group, fourteen hostages, this Saturday in exchange for 42 Palestinian prisoners. But he assured that until Israel “respects” the temporary ceasefire agreement, he will delay delivery.

The four-day extendable ceasefire, which was obtained on Wednesday by Qatar, the United States and Egypt, provides for the release of a total of 50 Israeli hostages, out of more than 200 prisoners in Gaza, and 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.

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It represents a first moment of calm for Gazans, who are also subject to a “total siege” by Israel. with little access to water, food, electricity or medicine.

Convoys of ambulances continue to arrive at hospitals in the south of the enclave to evacuate the injured to the north. But as Ashraf al Qidreh, spokesman for the Hamas Health Ministry, assures, “they no longer have the reception capacity or the equipment.”

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“The ceasefire feels good, we hope it will last. […] People want to live,” Mohammed Dheir, who took shelter with his family in Rafah, in the south, told AFP.

However, Israel’s Chief of Staff, General Herzi Halevi, nonetheless warned that the war was not over. “We will attack Gaza again as soon as the ceasefire ends […] to dismantle Hamas and exert enormous pressure to bring back as many hostages as possible, one by one, as quickly as possible,” he said. (JO)