Israel advances prisoners after chaos in the release of hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister Israel Katz ordered on Thursday (30) the postponement of the release of 110 Palestinian prisoners, scheduled for the next few hours, “until safe liberation is guaranteed of your hostages “.

The announcement, released by the Israeli Premier Office, occurs after the Palestinian militias deliver eight hostages this morning, amid times of chaos and disorder caused by the thousands of residents of the Gaza Strip that went to the scene and surrounded them Red Cross Vehicles.

Netanyahu classified the episodes as “shocking scenes” that show Hamas’s “unimaginable cruelty.”

“I see with great severity the shocking scenes that occurred during the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said in a statement released by his press office.

The images of the liberation of hostages show thousands of residents of Gaza gathered on site surrounding vehicles of the Red Cross and making it difficult to access hostages and militia. Between the crowd, numerous flags of Hamas and Islamic jihad can also be seen.

The disorder was such that the Palestinian terrorists had to ask people to open the vehicles, which delayed the conclusion of the process and made it difficult to verify that both the Israelis and the Thai had been delivered to the Red Cross.

After the disclosure of these scenes, the Israeli Prime Minister demanded that “the mediators guarantee that such threatening scenes do not repeat and that the safety of our hostages is guaranteed.”

The forum that represents hostage families also lamented what it described as “devastating images” that “filled their hearts with fear,” according to a statement in which they asked “everything possible to ensure their protection and reunification immediate with your loved ones “.

“After 482 days of terror and unimaginable suffering, these people, who have already supported the unthinkable, should not be subjected to more dangers. This process, marked by cruelty and disrespect for human dignity, should be unambiguously condemned,” the group said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog also condemned the “scenes of abuse and terror” against hostages while being transferred to Red Cross vehicles, according to a statement.

Hamas released the military on Thursday, a 20-year-old hostage, at a ceremony held in a square surrounded by buildings destroyed at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Enclave, where no incidents occurred.

Hours later, in Khan Younis, in the south of the track, Israeli civilians Arbel Yehud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, as well as five Thai hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023 were released by Hamas.

In this case, the liberation happened in the midst of a crowd of thousands of residents of Gaza who gathered there to receive them and booed them as they drove to the vehicles of the Red Cross.