Hamas has indefinitely postponed the discharge of Israeli hostages who have been set to be free of the Gaza Strip this weekend, a spokesman stated on Monday, accusing Israel’s authorities of violating an already fragile cease-fire settlement.
In an announcement on Telegram, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’s navy wing, accused Israel of a number of violations of the cease-fire settlement.
The transfer threatens to derail the cease-fire settlement reached final month. Widespread anger over the circumstances a number of the hostages who’ve been launched to date — malnourished, buffeted by hostile crowds, paraded earlier than cameras and in some circumstances made to learn statements beneath duress — has drawn accusations in Israel that Hamas was not complying with the cease-fire settlement.
A spokesman for Israel’s protection minister, Israel Katz, known as Hamas’s announcement “a whole violation of the cease-fire settlement and the hostage launch deal.”
He stated he had directed Israel’s navy “to arrange on highest alert for each potential situation in Gaza.” Referring to the 2023 Hamas-led assault on Israel that started the struggle, he added, “We is not going to permit for the truth of Oct. 7 to return.”
The preliminary, six-week section of the cease-fire deal, which is scheduled to final till March 2, known as for the discharge of 25 dwelling hostages and the our bodies of 8 who have been killed, in trade for the discharge of 1,500 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. About half of the exchanges have been made.
Johnatan Reiss contributed reporting from Tel Aviv.
