The deal got here after an Israeli supply to proceed the cease-fire by in the future for each extra 10 hostages launched, who could be exchanged for 30 Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli hostages launched on Monday have been three girls and eight kids, all of them kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz throughout the Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct. 7, when greater than 200 individuals have been seized and brought to Gaza.
They included Sharon Alony Cunio, 34, and her twin 3-year-old daughters, Emma and Yuli Cunio, three of the six members of their household who have been taken hostage. David Cunio, the twins’ father and Ms. Cunio’s husband, is believed to nonetheless be in Gaza. Her sister and niece have been launched on Friday.
The French authorities mentioned three of these launched on Monday have been twin Israeli-French residents. Plenty of these kidnapped have twin nationalities, together with about 10 Israeli-Individuals, of whom just one, a 4-year-old woman, has been launched.
Hamas mentioned it had obtained a listing of three girls and 30 minors that Israel would launch in return on Monday.
The exchanges thus far have centered on Israeli and Palestinian girls and minors. Dozens of Israeli troopers in addition to civilian Israeli males of their 70s and 80s are nonetheless being held captive in Gaza. In a number of circumstances, kids have been launched with out their fathers, and wives with out their husbands.
Household separations have been a stumbling block within the hostage negotiations.
Israeli officers have expressed issues to Qatari mediators that some kids have been being launched with out moms who have been additionally being held captive, working counter to the settlement, in response to an official briefed on the talks. The official mentioned Hamas has mentioned that in these circumstances, the moms are being held by totally different teams, and it might take time to get them.
The swap of hostages and prisoners is being negotiated by the federal government of Qatar, the place lots of Hamas’s political leaders reside, and which has lengthy acted as an middleman for nations that refuse to deal straight with Hamas.
