A Hamas official announced this Wednesday that the movement will release all hostages with Russian citizenship, regardless of the agreement that can be reached with Israel to extend the truce.
The truce agreement to release hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners includes only women and children.
It is, according to Mousa Abu Marzook, quoted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a “tribute” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In October there was talk of eight Russian hostages, but the number could be lower. The list of hostages who will be released this Wednesday, already communicated to the Israeli Government, includes two Russian citizens and 10 Israelis.
Thanks to a truce, with Qatar as the main mediator, since last Friday, Hamas has freed a dozen women and children sent to the Gaza Strip daily after the October 7 attack, in exchange for the release of three times more Palestinian prisoners. , the majority of whom are women and adolescents.
Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7, following an attack by the Islamic group, which included the launching of more than 4,000 rockets and the infiltration of nearly 3,000 militants, who killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 240 from communities. Israelis near Gaza. Band.
Since then, Israel’s air, naval and ground forces have counterattacked in the Palestinian enclave, where more than 15,000 people have died, according to authorities in the Gaza Strip, controlled since 2007 by Hamas, most of them children and women. and it is estimated that more than seven thousand people are missing under the rubble.
Source: TSF
