Hamas said Monday that he was suspending the next hostage launch in the Gaza Strip, blaming Israel for not following the terms of a high fire agreement that stopped the 15 -month war in the Palestinian enclave.
The Military Wing of Hamas, the Qassam brigades, cited alleged Israeli violations of the agreement in the last three weeks, including the delay of the return of the people displaced north of Gaza, without allowing help to enter the enclave and bombardments and shots in shots in several areas of the band areas.
As a result, the delivery of hostages scheduled for Saturday “will be postponed until an addition Social networks.
The announcement caused an alarm between the families of the hostages, with the hostages and the forum of missing families that asked for help from the countries that mediate the next and second stage of the Alto El Fuego.
“The recent evidence of those published, as well as the shocking conditions of the hostages published last Saturday, leaves no room for doubt: time is essential, and all hostages must be urgently rescued from this horrible situation,” the group said.
During the weekend, at the launch of hostages on Saturday, the fifth since the high -fire agreement began on January 19, Eli Sharabi, or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami seemed fragile and weak.
Qatar, the United States and Egypt have helped mediate conversations between Israel and Hamas, with negotiators due to the details of the second phase of the agreement now.
Israeli officials denounced the announcement, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, described it as “a complete violation of the high fire agreement.”
“I have ordered the IDF to prepare at the highest alert level for any possible scenario in Gaza and protect the communities,” he said, referring to Israel’s defense forces.
The announcement will worsen the uncertainty surrounding the high fragile fire, the future not only of the hostages and the Palestinian prisoners and detainees that must be released in return, but also the next steps for the region as a whole.
President Donald Trump last week was sentenced throughout the Middle East after a plan floated for the United States to take control of Gaza, and made him the “Riviera del Middle East.” In an interview with Fox News that was broadcast on Monday, he said that, according to the Plan, the Palestinians in Gaza would not be entitled to return home after the enclave was rebuilt.
“We will build beautiful communities for the 1.9 million people. We will build beautiful communities, safe communities: they could have five, six, they could be two, but we will build safe communities a bit from where they are, where all this danger is, “Trump said in Fox’s interview.
After Trump’s initial comments last week, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, insisted that Trump was “committed to reconstructing Gaza already temporarily relocated” Palestinians during those reconstruction efforts.
According to local health officials, about 48,000 people have died in the War in Gaza, which was caused by the terrorist attack of October 7 of Hamas in which Israeli officials say that 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostages .