The Islamist movement Hamas announced today that the four-day truce agreed with Israel in exchange for the release of 50 hostages will come into force at 10am local time this Thursday, Musa Abou Marzouk, a senior member of Hamas’s political wing, told the television channel Al Jazeera do Qatar.
Marzouk added that Hamas “is prepared for a global ceasefire and a prisoner exchange”, before indicating that “the majority” of the hostages taken during the October 7th attacks to be released “are foreigners”, without giving any details. more details.
The deal includes the release of 50 civilian women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for the release of an unspecified number of “Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons.”
In turn, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the war against Hamas will not stop because of the ceasefire to free hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Benjamin Netanyahu referred to “nonsense” aired in recent hours about the end of hostilities as a result of the release of the hostages, stating, “I would like to make it clear that we are at war and we will continue the war until we achieve all our objectives, eliminate Hamas, recover all the hostages and missing people and guarantee that there will be no threat to Israel in Gaza.”
