In force is the between Israel and Hamas in as the Palestinian organization is expected to release 3 hostage women after 16:00 Sunday afternoon (19.1.25). With a delay of about three hours, the Gaza truce began at 11:15 instead of the 08:30 agreed. Because of the delay that Hamas had not given the list of hostages to be released today. Eventually, the list was given to Israel and the ceasefire came into effect. Hamas has announced that she expects Israel to hand over to the ombudsmen (Katar and Egypt) the list of 90 Palestinian prisoners to be released today, as provided for in the agreement. CORVERSE Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claim they do not know the time when the hostage release will take place but point out that they are ready to receive the hostages. As has become known, it is Romi Gonen, 24, British-Israeli Emily Damari, 28 and Doron Stanbar Highre, 31. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that the release of the three hostages from Hamas will take place today after 16:00 (local time and time of Greece). At the same time he pointed out that four other women hostages, living, will be released in seven days. CORVERSE All three hostages had been kidnapped by Hamas in the attack against kibbutz in Israel on October 7, 2023. Romi Gonen was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, while Emily Damari and Doron Stanbar Highre were kidnapped from their homes in kibbutz Kfar Aza. Emily Damari (Reuters) Doron Stanbar Higher (Reuters) Emotional scenes emerge from the streets of Gaza as the 16-month-long Israel genocide comes to an end. — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) Palestinians are celebrating thousands of Palestinians poured into Gaza’s streets, as the armistice between Israel and Hamas began this morning. Some were celebrating, others visited the graves of their relatives, while several were returning home. “I feel that at least I found some water to drink after I was lost in the desert for 15 months. I feel alive again,” said Aya, a displaced woman from Gaza City, who had found refuge in the city of Deir al-Bala in the central Gaza Strip for more than a year, she told Reuters herself through an application to exchange messages. Members of Al-Qassam Brigades particulated in celebrations in the streets of Khan Younis in southern Gaza following the implementation of the case-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas — Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) Hamas gunmen took to the streets of Han Eunice city located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, with the crowds of concentrated Palestinians cheering, despite a nearly three-hour delay in implementing the agreement, after a 15-month continuous wartime conflict, with devastating consequences for the reported Palestinian region. Reuters Trucks with humanitarian aid About 200 trucks with humanitarian aid, including 20 tankers carrying fuel began today arriving at the Kerem Shalom border crossing controlled by the Israelis, before entering the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian sources told the Reuters news agency. A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force this morning, after a three-hour delay, operating as a peace break in the 15-month war that has shaken the Middle East. Trucks with humanitarian aid use the Kerem Shalom Pass, as maintenance is expected at the Rafa border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip from Egypt, the same sources added. “Basanistic 471 days” The relatives of Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Stanbar – Hair, the three Israeli hostages to be released later today, express their joy that their loved ones return home, but say there is a “long road ahead of them”. Etan Gonen declares on the public broadcasting network Kan that while Israeli officials have not given information about his daughter’s condition, “Romi finally returns home, alive, there is nothing happier than that”. A source adjacent to the Damari family tells the BBC that it was “violent 471 days, but particularly excruciating 24 hours”. “All Emily’s mom, Maddie, wants to do is hug Emily. But he won’t believe it until he sees it,” says the source on the British broadcasting network. “Until she is released and Maddie can really see she is out. It hasn’t happened until it happened. It’s not over until it’s over. And there is a long way ahead of us,” he said. Michal Mayo, Doron’s cousin, breaks out in tears during an interview on the Kan public broadcasting network, as her host says that Doron’s release later in the day has been announced “How good she is to return home,” says Mayo. The list of 90 Palestinians released today Hamas announced that Israel would hand over a list of the names of 90 Palestinian prisoners released today, in exchange for the release of the three female hostages detained in Gaza. In one announcement, Hamas reported that among prisoners released on the first day of the truce from the 15-month war conflict, women and children are included. Meanwhile, since Sunday morning hundreds have been the Palestinians forced to leave their homes and return to the war-ravaged Gaza. Reuters What the agreement provides for on the basis of the terms of the agreement, in the first phase of six weeks the hostilities will cease and 33 Israeli hostages will be released. In return Israel will release 737 Palestinian prisoners, the Justice Ministry announced. Egypt, on the other hand, mentioned “more than 1,890” Palestinians who will be released in the first phase of the truce. In exchange for the first three female hostages to be released today, Israel will release 95 Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and minors, most of whom were arrested after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. The agreement provides that Hamas will inform the International Red Cross Commission (ICRC) where the meeting point within Gaza will be and ICRC will pick up the hostages there, explained an official involved in the process. According to an Israeli army officer, three reception points have been created at the borders of Israel with Gaza, at the crossing points of Kerem Shalom and Eretz and at what is located near kibbutz Raim, where the hostages, who will be taken over by doctors, will be taken to hospitals. In addition to the first hostage releases, the first phase includes, according to US outgoing President Joe Biden, “full cease-fire”, Israel’s departure from the densely populated Gaza areas and the increase in humanitarian aid entering the enclave. The Egyptian authorities have clarified that the agreement provides for the entry of 600 trucks with assistance daily, including 50 fuel trucks. The second phase will allow the release of the last hostages, before the third and final phase concerning the reconstruction of Gaza and the return of the bodies of the hostages who died.
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