With only days to go before the first phase of the fragile ceasefire deal Between Israel Hamas has the expiration of Hamas, and the terrorist group agreed to release the bodies of four Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Israel has been late to launch about 600 Palestinian prisoners since Saturday to protest what it considered A harsh treatment Of the hostages while they were released by Hamas.
“In light of the frequent Hamas violations, including the celebrations that satisfy our hostages and the indispensable exploitation of our hostages for propaganda purposes, it was decided to delay the launch of the terrorists who were planned yesterday until the next hostages are launched and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement” confirmed, without celebrations The degrading.
The tensions worsened after Hamas said that it was the delivery of the bodies of Sherry Pepas and her two sons – only until the mother's identity was not identified.
Hamas fighters stand in the formation while the Palestinians gather on a street to see the delivery of three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross team in Deir Pala, central Gaza, on February 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The armed group said it “was not an interest in blocking any bodies in its possession,” claiming that the dead hostages who were delivered were killed in an Israeli air strike in November 2023 and that the bodies could have been defined due to the bombing in the area. The Israeli military spokesman, Admiral Daniel Hajari, denies this and said that Ariel and Kafir Pepas were killed by their kidnappers.
The comic Israeli hostages, from left to right, Ohda bin Ami, and Elie Charrabi or Levi, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, by the terrorists to a stage before being delivered to the Red Cross in Deir Al -Bala in the Gaza Strip in the middle of Saturday February 8, 2025. (AP/Abdul Karim Hana)
Hamas accused Israel of committing a “serious violation” by delaying the ceasefire agreement and said that the talks in the second stage are not possible until the Palestinians were released.
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But Hamas spokesman Abdel -Latif Al -Qanu told the Associated Press on Wednesday that Hamas would surrender the bodies of four Israelis the next day.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, thousands of Israelis lined up on highways where the bodies of Sherry Pipas and her two children were. Burial.
The Israelis are waiting on the side of the road, where the funeral convoy that carries the coffins of the murdered hostages will pass Sherry Pipas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, near Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Sherry Pipas was kidnapped with her two sons – Ariel, 4, Kafir, 9 months – from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
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Yarden Pepas, their father, was taken separately, and was released during the ceasefire last month. The three will be buried on Kibbutz nir oZ on Wednesday afternoon.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
