Hamas announced that it will release a new group of hostages this Saturday
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Published at: 14/02/2025 09:27 PM
As part of the resumption of talks for a ceasefire in Palestine, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced that this Saturday, February 15, it will release a new group of hostages from the Gaza Strip, including an Argentinian.
This is Iair Horn, a 46-year-old man, the son of a journalist director of the Scholem school. He had been kidnapped together with his brother Eitan Horn, who is not on the list of hostages to be released that had been announced during the first period of the cessation of hostilities, reported the website Page 12.
This process had been suspended due to a series of breaches reported by Hamas, but it will resume starting this Saturday as a result of the process started since the United States announced that it will take control of Gaza.
The announcement released through international media was made by Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Qassam Brigades.
The spokesman confirmed that the Israelis Sasha Alexander Trubnov, 29, and Sagi Dekel Chen, a man of American origin who is 36 years old, will also be released.
The Israeli hostages who were abducted on October 7, 2023 are being returned in batches. In fact, this installment is the sixth since the beginning of the talks between Hamas and Israel.
The handover of hostages is part of the exchanges agreed by Tel Aviv with Palestinian prisoners in the hands of the Israeli army.
The release was announced a day after one of the spokespersons for Benjamin Netanyahu's government publicly warned Hamas that if they did not release three live hostages, the ceasefire pact that has been in effect since January 19 would end.
What hindered Hamas' will to return the abducted persons were the series of “violations” that, it denounced, Israel committed to the detriment of the peace pact.
Starting tomorrow, Saturday, apparently, the schedule for exchanging hostages for prisoners will resume as agreed. At least that's what the Palestinian spokespersons promised.
Mazo News Team