A week of truce at the end of November allowed the release of 105 hostages held in the Gaza Strip, including 80 Israeli hostages exchanged for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
Hamas warned, this Sunday, that none of the hostages, kidnapped during the attack on Israel, on October 7, and still detained in the Gaza Strip, will leave “alive” without negotiations and without “responses to the demands” of the Palestinian movement.
“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership, nor its supporters, will be able to recover their prisoners alive without exchange and negotiation, and without meeting the demands of the resistance,” said Abou Obeida, spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades. , the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic movement, in a video released yesterday.
A week of truce at the end of November allowed the release of 105 hostages held in the Gaza Strip, including 80 Israeli hostages exchanged for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
Qatar, which mediated between Hamas and Israel, indicated that efforts are ongoing to reach a new truce and release new hostages, while also underlining that the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has “narrowed the prospect” of success. .
Israel – which never published a list – indicated that 137 hostages remain detained in the Gaza Strip, where its army is leading a total offensive, marked in particular by intensive bombings – from the air, the sea, the sky – once morest the small and overpopulated, governed by Hamas since 2007.
