Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday, February 8, sending negotiators to Qatar to discuss the suite of the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, after the release of three very physically proven hostages. One of them, Ohad Ben Ami, a 56-year-old Israeli-German, is in a state of “nutritional distress”, the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv announced on Saturday evening, where he was admitted. The state of health of the other two, or Levy, 34, and Eli Sharabi, 52, is “bad” after 491 days of captivity. The three men were released against 183 Palestinians held by Israel, during the fifth exchange provided by the cease-fire agreement.
The future of this one remains uncertain beyond the first phase of six weeks, which began on January 19 and is to be completed on March 1. The second phase is supposed to lead to the release of all hostages and to the final end of the war, before a final stage dedicated to the reconstruction of Gaza.
Info to remember
⇒ Netanyahu is ready to “do the work” to apply Trump’s plan for Gaza
⇒ The Israeli army has left Netzarim corridor in Gaza
⇒ an NGO accuses Israel of “deliberate raids” against families of prisoners
Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza: “We will do the job,” says Benyamin Netanyahu
In an interview broadcast on Saturday evening on Fox News, on the eve of the end of his visit to Washington, the Israeli Prime Minister once again praised the widely criticized plan of Donald Trump aimed at moving the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, ravaged by war. “I think that President Trump’s proposal has been the first new idea for years, and has the potential to change everything in Gaza,” said Benyamin Netanyahu, seeing a “correct approach” for the future of the territory Palestinian.
“All Trump says is: ‘I want to open the door and give them an option to move temporarily while we rebuild the place physically’,” he said. Donald Trump “never said he wanted the American troops to do the job. Getting guidance? We are going to do the job,” the Israeli Prime Minister said. “Hamas attacked us, we’re going to take care of it.”
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For Netanyahu, the plan of the American president marks a break with the “always the same”: “we leave, Gaza is again occupied by these terrorists who use it as the basis to attack Israel […] This does not lead anywhere. “” I think we should continue, “he added, warning that” the real problem “was to find a” destination “to accommodate the displaced Gazaouis. At the same time, he said That the Palestinians should “deny terrorism” to be allowed to return to Gaza.
The Israeli army has left Netzarim’s corridor, according to Hamas
The Israeli army finished this Sunday, its withdrawal from the Netzarim corridor, which cuts the Gaza Strip on two parts on an east-west axis on Sunday, said a Hamas official, in accordance with the truce agreement in force with the movement Palestinian Islamist.
“Israeli forces have dismantled their military positions and positions, with the complete withdrawal of their armored vehicles from the Netzarim corridor on the road to Salaheddine -with the south to the north of the Palestinian territory -allowing vehicles to circulate freely in both directions” , told AFP an official of the Interior Ministry led by Hamas.
This total withdrawal of soldiers from the Netzarim corridor occurs the day after a fifth exchange between Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees. A senior Hamas official told AFP on Saturday evening that in the words of the truce agreement, Israeli forces were to withdraw from this passage after the implementation of the fifth exchange.
Cars, buses, trucks and even donkey carts were seen circulating on the road to Salaheddine from the north and southern. The reopening of this road for vehicles marks significant development since the reopening of the Netzarim corridor for the Palestinians moved by the war. At the end of January, the Israeli army reopened the corridor, allowing tens of thousands of Palestinians to return home in the north of the Gaza Strip. The withdrawal of Israeli troops this Sunday now allows the Gazaouis to also leave south of the Palestinian territory.
West Bank: an NGO accuses Israel of “deliberate raids” against families of prisoners
The Palestinian prisoner club accused the Israeli army of having attacked at home, on the night of Friday to Saturday, families waiting for relatives detained having to be released as part of a new exchange with hostages in Gaza. Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army simply indicated that “warning patrols had been carried out (in occupied West Bank) to remove flags (from the Palestinian Islamist movement) Hamas and (prevent) preparations in the area”. The Israeli authorities have prohibited any “party or procession in support of terrorism”, on the occasion of these releases.
“The houses of several prisoners (in front) be released were searched in different cities” of West Bank, AFP told AFP Abdallah al-Zaghari, director of the Prisoners club, NGOs which helps the Palestinians detained by Israel. “The occupation (Israel, editor’s note) tries to deprive the families of prisoners of the joy of the liberations they have been waiting for decades,” he said. Denouncing “deliberate raids” and the fact that the elderly were “attacked”, Abdallah al-Zaghari reported descents from the army to Bethlehem and Hébron as well as in Kobar, north of Ramallah.