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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages today in exchange for 183 prisoners held by Israel in the fifth exchange of a fragile Gaza ceasefire. — Pic by AFP
JERUSALEM, Feb 8 — Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages today in exchange for 183 prisoners held by Israel in the fifth exchange of a fragile Gaza ceasefire.
The exchange comes despite uproar in the region over a proposal by US President Donald Trump to clear out the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants and for the United States to take over the Palestinian territory.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed to AFP yesterday it had received a list of hostages for release from Gaza after Hamas published three names of captives to be freed.
The three men set to be released today are Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, according to Hamas. Their names were confirmed by Netanyahu’s office.
Former hostage Yarden Bibas, who was freed last week by Hamas militants in Gaza, yesterday urged Netanyahu to help bring back his wife and two children from the Palestinian territory.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu, I’m now addressing you with my own words... bring my family back, bring my friends back, bring everyone home," Bibas said in his first public message following his release.
Hamas previously said his wife Shiri and his two sons Ariel and Kfir — the youngest hostages — were dead, but Israel has not confirmed their deaths.
Netanyahu, who is in Washington, will “monitor this phase of the hostages’ release from the control centre of the delegation in the US", the premier’s office said in a separate statement.
‘Now is the time’
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum urged the government yesterday to stick with the Gaza truce, even as Trump’s comments sparked uproar across the Middle East and beyond.
“An entire nation demands to see the hostages return home," the Israeli campaign group said in a statement.
“Now is the time to ensure the agreement is completed — until the very last one," it added.
Israel and Hamas have completed four swaps under the first stage of the ceasefire agreement.
Palestinian militants, led by Hamas, have so far freed 18 hostages in exchange for around 600 mostly Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails.
The ceasefire, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, aims to secure the release of 33 hostages during the first 42-day phase of the agreement.
Negotiations on the second stage of the ceasefire were set to begin on Monday, but there have been no details on the status of the talks.
The second stage aims to secure the release of more hostages and pave the way for a permanent end to the war, which began on Oct 7, 2023 with Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel.
During the attack, militants took 251 hostages to Gaza. Seventy-six remain in captivity, including 34 whom the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliation has killed at least 47,583 people in Gaza, the majority civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The United Nations considers the figures reliable. — AFP
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