Hamas and Israel agreed to extend cease-fire for two days. The four-day break was supposed to end today. But this morning Israel said it was willing to extend the pause. They also offered that to Hamas. The condition, however, is that more Israeli prisoners must be released. Hamas agreed to that. At the end of the day, Hamas announced that the ceasefire had been extended for two days.
Even today, the two sides will exchange prisoners. Hamas sent a list of names to Israel. As soon as the first day of the truce was successful, America and France began to say that the truce needed to be extended. Today, on the last day of the break, Egypt, Qatar and the United States met together and said they all want the war to stop for several more days. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has also emphasized on this. Hamas did not object to this from the beginning. However, they demanded that the war should be stopped for four more days. But Israel wants to increase the matter one day at a time. Bargaining continued throughout the day regarding this and the exchange of prisoners. At the end, the decision of cease-fire was finalized for two more days.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure at home and abroad. Long marches took place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem on Saturday and Sunday. Some of the protesters demanded that Netanyahu should resign immediately. There is also increasing pressure for the return of all Israeli prisoners from Hamas camps.
Netanyahu is directly monitoring the prisoner exchange from Defense Ministry headquarters. But families of detainees, ordinary people are rallying around Netanyahu’s main rival, Benny Gantz. It is feared that the 74-year-old head of state may be held responsible for failing to stop the October 7 attack by Hamas. On the one hand, political survival
The fight, on the other hand, is the fight against Hamas. In this situation, war experts predicted that a ceasefire would increase if the situation was not too unfavorable. Prisoner-exchange will also continue. American President Joe Biden said, “ Let the ceasefire continue. Many more prisoners will be released. More aid will also be able to enter Gaza.
I want the problem to end. All prisoners should be released. … Besides, Gaza is no longer under full control of Hamas.” So far, Hamas has released 39 Israelis. Israel has released 117 Palestinians from Prison But on the one hand, there is talk of release of prisoners, on the other hand, new arrests of Palestinians are also going on. Over 60 Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank last night. At least 215 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the fighting began on October 7, a UN agency said. 55 of them are children. In addition, 8 more people were killed by the Israeli occupation forces. Allegedly, the Israeli government is giving small amounts of land to Israelis in different parts of the West Bank. They came and evicted the Palestinians and built their own houses.
doing As a result, sometimes the two groups clash. Reports of murders and injuries are also frequent. Such incidents have increased since the start of the war in Gaza.
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