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Hamas will return corpses of 4 Israeli hostages dead in exchange for prisoners

Hamas will return corpses of 4 Israeli hostages dead in exchange for prisoners

Hamas will turn the bodies from Four Israeli hostages Thursday, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, the group said just a few days before the first phase of ceasing the fire between the parts in the war had to expire.

Israel has delayed the release of about 600 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday to protest what he says is the cruel treatment of hostages during their release from Hamas.

The militant group said that the delay is a “serious violation” of their termination and that the discussions in a two phase are not possible until the Palestinians are released.

Hamas spokesman, Abdul Latif Al-Qanou, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Hamas will teach four Israeli bodies the next day.

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An Israeli group for human rights says that Palestinian doctors in Gaza have faced systematic abuses in Israeli military detention, including starving and neglecting “to torture”.

The report of doctors for human rights, published on Wednesday, is based on interviews with 24 doctors who spent time in Israel network of military detention installations.

Doctors said they were treated especially harshly because they were doctors. Israel attacked the Gaza hospitals on several occasionssaying that Hamas used them for military purposes, but rarely providing evidence.

Many of the medical workers said they were beaten, including an ambulance driver who said the soldiers eliminated a dental filling. Others told to be gathered by their wrists and to extinguish cigarettes on them.

Israel’s military and imprisonment service did not respond to a comment request. In response to previous investigations, the Israeli authorities said they act according to the law and investigate and punish any crime by natural persons.

The Turkish Foreign Minister accuses Israel of Expansionism in Syria

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On Wednesday, Fidan also welcomed a national dialog conference organized by the new leaders from Syria who promised an inclusive political transition.

“The biggest obstacle for peace and stability in our region is the regional aggression of Israel,” Fidan said. “Netanyahu’s recent statements about Syria clearly show that Israel is not in favor of peace. Israel must end its regional expansionism under the pretext of establishing security. “

Fidan said that Turkey expects the transition process in Syria to prevent separatist movements – a reference to the Kurdish Syrian militia, which Ankara considers affiliates of the Kurdist’s workers’ party outside the law and tries to abolish.

Israeli authorities accuses issued the Palestinian prisoner with violation of traffic

The Israeli authorities filed accusations against a Palestinian because he rode in a car without the seat belt while celebrating his release from prison under the ceasefire with Hamas.

The Israeli police said on Wednesday that Ashraf Zaghir, 46 years old, and two of his family members “settled inside a moving vehicle, with the upper bodies outside the car, without the seat belts, in danger in reckless and others ”, in violation of laws in traffic.

Israel tried to delete the public expressions of joy regarding the release of prisoners. Hundreds of Palestinians were released In recent weeks, in exchange for issuing the Hamas -abducted hostages on October 7, 2023, the attack that triggered the war in the Gaza strip.

Zaghir was convicted of the transport of a suicidal bomber in a 2002 attack that killed six people and hurt dozens. It was not clear whether Israel was planning to arrest him again for traffic violations.

Doctors in Gaza report the death of 7 -a child from hypothermia

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Dr. Munir al-Bours, the general manager of the Ministry of Health Gaza, said Seela Abdel Qader, who was less than 2 months old, died on Wednesday due to the latest “severe cold waves” that hit the Palestinian Enclut.

Zahedi, the head of the Ministry’s department, said that the child died at the Nasser hospital in the south of Khan Younis.

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He asked for the international community to “take clear positions to condemn this unjustified aggression that aims to ignite tension in the region and to put obstacles to the political transition in Syria.”

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Israeli line highways as bodies of the mother and children are sent for funeral

Tel Aviv, Israel – tens of thousands of Israelis, some who hold flags and signs reading “forgive”, align the highways while the bodies of an Israeli mother and her two children who were killed in Gaza were transported to their funeral.

Shiri Bibas was abducted with her two sons – Ariel, 4 years old and Kfir, 9 months old – from their house on Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. Hamas released the bodies last week as part of a fragile ceasefire agreement, although initially the militant group initially did not release the correct body for Shiri Bibas.

Yarden Bibas, their father, was taken separately and launched during fire cease last month. The three will be buried on Kibbutz nir oz on Wednesday after -mies.

Hamas says the three were killed in an Israeli air attack in November 2023. The spokesman of the Israeli military man, Daniel Hagari, denied this and said that Ariel and Kfir Bibas were killed by their captors.

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