Benefit for everyone: what are the conditions for a truce and exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hamas

/ Collage 24 Channel

The Israeli government has approved an agreement with Hamas to release hostages in exchange for a ceasefire. The temporary truce will begin on Friday, November 24. The first release of hostages must take place before 16:00.

Israel and Hamas agreed on certain obligations on both sides to ensure that the prisoner exchange took place smoothly. Israeli journalist Zvi Zilber told Channel 24 about the details of the temporary truce and the release of the hostages.

On what basis will prisoners be released?

The Israeli government has abandoned the principle of releasing hostages of foreign nationality. They will fire all citizens. First of all, we talk about children. At the same time, if there are parents with them, they should also be fired. Although there is a high probability that Hamas militants will not hand over the men to Israel.

Hamas also pledged to fire older people.

I think that Hamas will be very happy to return them (the elderly – Channel 24) in order to keep more hostages who can live under “Spartan conditions”. At least 50 people must be fired. We don’t know the exact number,” noted Zvi Zilber.

Israel must release three Palestinian prisoners for one hostage. It also refers to women and minors. As for teenagers, Hamas and other terrorist organizations are very active in involving teenagers in various activities, brainwashing them and in every possible way encouraging them to become terrorists. They also posed a certain threat to Israel.

“We are talking about a ratio of 1:3, and for Israel this is a very good ratio. We usually fired one to a thousand or one to several hundred. Therefore, one to three, it seems to me, is a very successful bargaining result,” the journalist emphasized.

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Israel will not monitor Hamas

In addition, Israel pledged that during the truce six hours a day there would be no drones or other reconnaissance equipment in the sky.

They (Hamas – Channel 24) will have such a fog of war, during which six hours a day they will be able to drag something, move somewhere, redeploy so that Israel does not see. They demanded throughout the truce that Israel remove surveillance equipment, but Israel did not agree. Therefore, we agreed on six hours of intelligence silence,” Zilber said.

This is not the first temporary truce between Hamas and Israel. Usually, during them, militants still opened fire, shifting responsibility to other terrorist organizations.

Therefore, this time Israel insisted that, as part of the truce, if terrorists open fire, down will have the right to respond, very powerfully and disproportionately.

“This is for 4 days. The hostages will be released in parts. Accordingly, they have the option of extension, that is, if they want to continue to release hostages, then 10 people a day and the maximum truce will be up to 10 days,” the journalist noted.

How can they benefit from a truce?

Moreover, Hamas militants are given freedom of movement from northern to southern Gaza.

“In fact, I can’t imagine that Israeli soldiers are standing there, and armed Hamas soldiers are walking past them, asking them for a light, waving a pistol, and they should stand and not react to this in any way. I don’t understand how this is possible. But ours the government has not officially announced what everything will look like,” Zilber noted.

Israel is preparing hospitals, doctors and psychologists to immediately provide all assistance to the released hostages if necessary. In addition, the Gaza Strip will receive fuel and humanitarian aid.

We will finally give the international community what they so demand – an improvement in the humanitarian situation, assistance to the evacuated population in the southern part of Gaza. Then we will get an even longer time corridor in order to extend the operation and overthrow the Hamas regime,” the journalist emphasized.

However, Hamas should not be underestimated. They really want the war to end there, that is, for at least half of the Gaza Strip to remain under their control. It is possible that they hope that in the end Israel will get out of there and then they will again return the entire Gaza Strip to their control.

“I still hope that Israel will continue, because it’s time to end with Hamas. Of course, the Middle East will not be the same after what happened. But we’ll see how everything develops in the future,” Zilber emphasized.

The release of the hostages is an important step that can pave the way for further action. However, we still cannot hope that everything will end quickly and easily.

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