A third exchange is to take place this Thursday, January 30, as part of the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas. A 20 -year -old soldier Agam Berger was released at the start of the day, and two other Israeli hostages still have to be, just like five Thai kidnapped on October 7, 2023. Israel must release 110 Palestinians, including 32 the subject of a perpetuity condemnation
Seven Israeli were already released, against 290 Palestinians, on January 19, on the first day of the truce, then on January 25. The cease-fire agreement provides, during a first phase of six weeks, the release of 33 hostages in exchange for around 1,900 Palestinians, but the Israeli authorities warned that this first group included eight dead hostages.
Info to remember
⇒ Three Israeli hostages must be released this Thursday by Hamas
⇒ Israel must release 110 Palestinian prisoners
⇒ The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) must stop working “on Israeli territory”
Israeli soldier Agam Berger released by Hamas
The Israeli soldier Agam Berger, held hostage in the Gaza Strip, was given this Thursday morning by Hamas at the Red Cross in Jabalia, in the north of the small Palestinian territory. The Israeli army confirmed shortly after in a statement that she had arrived in Israel. Agam Berger aged 2023 AGAM Berger was captured on October 7, 2023 when she was doing her military service near the Gaza Strip. She spent almost 16 months of captivity in Gaza.
Another young woman, Arbel Yehud, a 29-year-old civilian taken hostage on the same day at Kibbutz Nir Oz with the family of her fiancé, as well as a 80-year-old German-Israeli, Gadi Moses, must also be released on Thursday . The Palestinian Islamic jihad broadcast this morning a brief video of them, giving itself a hug and smiling. According to a source in Islamic jihad, both must be given to the Red Cross in the morning by the al-Quds brigades, a military branch of the movement, in Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Five Thai people, whose names have not been communicated, must also be released during the day, outside the framework of the truce agreement. Thirty Thai Thai were removed by Hamas during the October 7 attack, and 23 were released before the end of 2023. Thailand had some 30,000 citizens in Israel at the time of the RAID, the majority of ‘Between them being migrant workers in agriculture, from the northeast provinces of the northeast.
The release of 110 Palestinians expected
In exchange for the release of the three Israeli hostages this Thursday, Israel is to release 110 Palestinians on this same day, including 32 sentenced to life, according to a Palestinian NGO. The released prisoners, 20 of whom will be exiled, must arrive in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, around noon (11:00 am French time).
A fourth exchange is scheduled for Saturday, with the release of three men, all alive, according to the calendar announced Wednesday by Israel.
The UN agency dedicated to Palestinians prohibited to work by Israel
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) must stop working “on Israeli territory” Thursday, a year after the explosion of a controversy on the role of some of its employees during the attack on 7 october.
After more than 75 years of existence, and despite the reserves of part of the international community, UNRWA must disappear from the Israeli landscape, a headache to be implemented. Last nail in the UNRWA coffin, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the request for suspension of the Israeli law application on Wednesday, voted at the end of October, aimed at ending the agency’s activities.
For Israeli leaders, these laws are a political victory. According to them, UNRWA played a role in Hamas’ unprecedented attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.
“UNRWA is full of Hamas members, not just the 19 on which UNRWA inquiry […] But also hundreds of employees, “David Mencer said on Wednesday, a government spokesperson. At the end of January 2024, the Israeli authorities accused 12 UNRWA employees in the October 7 attack, triggering a Storm against the agency. “.