The Israeli soldiers on Sunday defended the Palestinians from returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza zone, when Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the conditions of the ceasefire agreement that came into force a week ago.
Under the conditions of the initial phase of the shop agreed this monthIsrael was expected to withdraw some of its forces to allow hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans to go north after replacement of hostages and prisoners Saturday.
But contradmiral Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli army, accused Hamas on a violation of the agreement on Saturday by not returning the captured Israeli civilians first. Israeli officials said Arbel Yehud, Israelka was supposed to be hostage in Gaza, one of four women who were released on Saturday.
The released hostages were all soldiers who were guardians at the base of the Gaza and were kidnapped from October 7, 2023 during the attack led by Hamas on Israel, which began. war.
The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not allow the Gazans to go north, “until the release of civilian Arbel Yehuda”, so the timing of the units and the return of the population is not clear.
Hamas on Sunday accused Israel of stopping and violating the agreement by preventing the displaced inhabitants of Gaza to move north.
Hamas said in his statement that he had reported the mediators that Mrs Yehud was alive, and provided “all the necessary guarantees for her release” and added that he was watching the intermediaries in the hope of resolving the dispute – one of them. The most important among the parties since the ceasefire came into force after 15 months of devastating war.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt mediated the ceasefire agreement. Israeli leaders immediately did not respond to requests for commentary on Hamas.
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