Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel will pay Hamas in exchange for the failure to release the hostage of Sherry Pepas as agreed.
He said in a video statement: “We will act with a determination to bring Sherry alongside all our hostages – whether they are alive or dead – and we guarantee that Hamas pays the full price of this harsh and evil violation of the agreement.”
The statement came after the Israeli specialists said that one of the four bodies that Hamas delivered on Thursday was an unidentified woman and not Sherry Pepas, who was handed over and they have Kafr and Ariel.
Netanyahu accused Hamas of acting “in an indescribable way” by placing the body of the Gaza woman in the coffin instead of Sherry Pipas, who was kidnapped with her two sons and her husband Yarden, during Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 7, 2023.
Netanyahu did not provide any details of a possible Israeli response, but the incident stressed the fragility of the ceasefire agreement that was reached with our support and with the help of the Qatari and Egyptian brokers last month.
6 hostages to be released, Hamas says
Ismail Thawabata, director of the government media office in Gaza in Hamas, said that the remains of Sherry Pepas had been mixed with other human remains after being buried in the ruins of a building destroyed in an Israeli air strike.
Hamas said in November 2023 that the children and their mother were killed in an Israeli air strike.
However, the Israeli army said that the intelligence and criminal analysis assessments of BIBAS’s bodies indicated that they were deliberately killed by their kidnappers. The chief military spokesman Daniel Hajari said that the boys were killed by the militants “with their naked hands”, but they did not give any details.
The United Nations Office for Human Rights said it has no information about the death of the hostages and called for an effective investigation into the causes of their death.
“The return of the remains of the deceased is a basic human goal,” the office said.
The Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday, when the bodies of the four hostages – including two children – were returned to Israel from Gaza, in what one man described as a “day of sadness” since October 7, 2023, an attack by Hamas militants.
It is not clear whether the mix will endanger the beginning of negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire, which was expected in the coming days.
Six neighborhood hostages will be released on Saturday, compared to 602 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, according to Hamas, and negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire in the coming days.
The Israeli military spokesman, Nadaf Shoshani, said in a statement about X.
The armed wing of the Armed Group Hamas said that it would launch Israeli hostages, Elia Cohen, Omer Shaim Touf, Tal Shawham, and orders Winker, Hisham Al -Sayed, and Afra Mingisto on Saturday.
Hisham Al -Sayed and Evra Mingeto are civilians who entered Gaza a decade ago and have been detained since then.
The Red Cross, a group of hostages, condemns the confusion
The Red Cross told Reuters on Friday that it was “anxious and unhappy” the way the hostage’s enthusiasm occurred.
She said in a statement on Friday: “The ICRC does not participate in sorting, examining or examining the deceased – this is the responsibility of the parties to the conflict.” A generous method.
Failure to return Sherry Pepas, and the general delivery of the nucleus on Thursday, caused anger in Israel.
“It looks like they are making a joke of us,” said 75 -year -old Elna Casbi. “We are sad and that’s more. It seems as if you were making a punch again, another and another. It’s really terrible.”
One of the main groups representing the hostage families said that she was “terrified and destroyed” by the news that the body of Sherry Pipas was not returned, but called for a ceasefire to continue to return all the 70 hostages who are still in Gaza.
“Keep them from this nightmare,” said the missing families forum in a statement.
With tension over the ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army to intensify operations in another Palestinian region, the occupied West Bank, after a number of explosions blew up buses standing in their warehouses near Tel Aviv.
No victims were reported, but the explosions were a reminder of the suicide attack campaign on public transport that resulted in the killing of hundreds of Israeli civilians during the second intifada in the early first decade of the twentieth century.