Second Israeli hostages high-five gun-toting Hamas terrorists as they’re loaded onto Crimson Cross vans certain for Egypt hours earlier than ceasefire deal set to finish with Gaza braced for additional bombardment

Surprising footage launched tonight reveals Israeli hostages giving high-fives to masked Hamas gunmen as they had been handed over to the Crimson Cross in the course of the sixth-and-seemingly-final ceasefire change, which is about to finish in just some hours. 

The extended-ceasefire deal is about to run out at 7am if Hamas doesn’t ship a listing of at the very least 10 girls and youngsters they intend to let loose. 

A younger feminine hostage was seen enthusiastically saying ‘goodbye’ to a masked and armed Hamas gunman, whereas an older Israeli hostage was seen reaching out to offer one other gunman a high-five. 

She was then seen giving a 3rd gunman a high-five, earlier than climbing right into a Crimson Cross van that took her and the opposite hostages to Egypt, the place they had been handed over to the IDF. 

The younger lady was then seen smiling as she mentioned ‘ma’assalamah’, the Arabic phrase used as a farewell that instantly means ‘Peace be with you.’ 

The 2 seen on tape had been seeming a part of the twelve Israeli and 4 Thai hostages, who’re all on their means again to Israel, launched on the sixth day of the precarious and non permanent ceasefire truce. 

Nn older Israeli hostage was seen reaching out to offer one other gunman a high-five.

The younger lady was then seen smiling as she mentioned ‘ma’assalamah’, the Arabic phrase used as a farewell that instantly means ‘Peace be with you’

Daniel Hagari, an IDF spokesperson, mentioned in a submit to X this night: ‘In keeping with the data supplied by the Crimson Cross, 10 Israeli abductees and abductees and 4 abductees with Thai citizenship are on their option to Israel.’

The names of the ten Israeli hostages launched inside the ceasefire settlement are as follows: Liat Atzili, 49, Yarden Roman Gat, 36, Raz Ben Ami, 57, Raaya Rotem, 54, Liam Or, 18, Ofir Engel, 17, Amit Shani, 16, Gali Tarshanksy, 13, Moran Stela Yanai, 40, and Itai Regev, 18. 

A number of of the hostages have twin nationality, with a minor hailing from the Netherlands, three adults from Germany and an grownup from the US. 

Six of the hostages are mentioned to hail from Kibbutz Be’eri, the positioning of one of many deadliest settlement massacres on October 7, the place at the very least 130 individuals had been slaughtered by Hamas terrorists. 

The spokesperson mentioned that 30 Palestinians, made up of 16 kids and 14 girls, could be free of Israeli prisons in change. 

It comes hours after two aged Israeli hostages had been handed again to Israeli forces earlier as we speak in a deal that was negotiated ‘exterior the framework of the settlement’, in response to Qatar’s international ministry. 

Gali Tarshanksy, 13, (pictured) is likely one of the 16 hostages freed tonight

Raaya Rotem (pictured, left) will quickly be reunited along with her daughter

30 Palestinians, made up of 16 kids and 14 girls, could be free of Israeli prisons in change.

The spokesperson for Qatar’s international ministry mentioned earlier as we speak that he was ‘hopeful’ that the non permanent truce deal may be prolonged.

Yelena Trupanov, 50, and her mom, Irena Tati, 73, who each have twin Israel-Russian citizenship, had been taken from their dwelling in Kibbutz Nir Oz throughout Hamas‘ lethal incursion on October 7. 

Yelena’s son Sasha, and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen, are nonetheless in Hamas custody, whereas her husband, Vitaly, was sadly killed on the day of the lethal assaults. 

4 Thai residents had been launched alongside Yelena and Irena. 

Six of the hostages launched inside the deal are from Kibbutz Be’eri, in response to the Occasions of Israel. 

Members of the settlement had been seen jubilantly celebrating listening to the information of their family members’ launch. 

Regardless of the scenes of pleasure, the deadline for the renewal of the ceasefire deal is quick approaching.

The IDF mentioned tonight that it might resume preventing if Hamas didn’t ship an official listing of the hostages it plans on releasing by 7am. 

Israel is claimed to be demanding at the very least ten extra hostages to be launched with the intention to should deal prolonged, on high of the 97 which have thus far been launched underneath the prolonged ceasefire deal.  

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv early on Thursday morning, his third journey to the area for the reason that October 7 assault on Israel by Hamas, and was set to satisfy with Israeli leaders to debate extending the non permanent truce and boosting humanitarian support into Gaza.

‘Trying on the subsequent couple of days, we’ll be targeted on … doing what we are able to to increase the pause in order that we proceed to get extra hostages out and extra humanitarian help in,’ Blinken mentioned at a cease in Brussels tonight. 

The spokesperson for Qatar’s international ministry mentioned earlier as we speak that he was ‘hopeful’ that the non permanent truce deal may be prolonged. 

‘Qatar stays hopeful that the progress made in latest days may be sustained, and an extra extension to the humanitarian pause settlement may be reached,’ he mentioned. 

UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that the Gaza Strip was within the midst of an ‘epic humanitarian disaster,’ and he and others known as for a ceasefire to exchange the non permanent truce.

‘Intense negotiations are happening to lengthen the truce, which we strongly welcome. However we imagine we’d like a real humanitarian ceasefire,’ he informed a gathering of the UN Safety Council.

China’s international ministry mentioned ready paper on the battle that the UN Safety Council ought to reply to ‘the final name of the worldwide group {that a} complete ceasefire be put in place to cease the preventing.’

Two Palestinian officers informed Reuters that talks had been persevering with over a doable extension of the truce, however no settlement had but been reached.

A Palestinian official mentioned negotiators had been hammering out whether or not Israeli males could be launched on completely different phrases than the change of three Palestinian detainees for every Israeli hostage that has utilized to the ladies and youngsters.

The ceasefire deal was on Monday prolonged by two days, hours earlier than the preliminary settlement was as a result of finish. 

The phrases of the truce settlement pausing the preventing within the Gaza Strip say it may be prolonged past its preliminary four-day time period so long as 10 hostages are launched for every further day, with 3 times as many Palestinians freed in return. 

The deal is known to have gone right down to a wire and appeared on the verge of unravelling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to maintain its facet of the discount and Israel was threatening to renew its deadly onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

However mediators had been in a position to pull it again from the brink, a feat that concerned the primary ever public go to by Qatari officers to Israel, in response to AP.

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