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Qatar mediated an agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The exchange is set for Thursday.
ADVERTISEMENTActing as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, Qatar announced early on Monday that an agreement was reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.The announcement came after Israel said Arbel Yehoud, a female civilian, was supposed to be released by Hamas ahead of the four female soldiers who were released on Saturday.Israel also accused Hamas of failing to provide details on the conditions of hostages set to be freed in the coming weeks.As a result, Israeli authorities refused to allow safe passage for the thousands of Palestinians hoping to return to northern Gaza, as was agreed in the ceasefire deal following Saturday’s hostage release.Qatar’s statement said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two other hostages before Friday. On Monday, Israeli authorities would allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza as part of the agreement.The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the hostage release — which will also include soldier Agam Berger — will take place on Thursday and confirmed that Palestinians can move north on Monday. Israel’s military said people could start crossing on foot at 7 am, which resulted in tens of thousands making their return for the first time since the war began.Mixed feelings for families of hostagesIn their first public comments since reuniting with their loved ones, relatives of four female Israeli soldiers freed from captivity in Gaza expressed joy and gratitude on Sunday but said their struggle will not end until all remaining hostages are home.“Naama is now safe here with us, surrounded by family and friends and protected. But the struggle is not over,” said her father, Yoni Levy, in a statement to the press at the hospital where the women are still undergoing medical evaluations.”There are 90 remaining hostages we need to bring home. They are our sons and daughters, the foundations on which our state is founded,“ he added. Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, were released by Hamas on Saturday after more than 15 months in captivity. Hospital officials have described the four women’s condition as stable.In exchange, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. Orly Gilboa, Daniella’s mother, said her daughter “came back thin and pale,” but that she was “as wonderful and as talented as on the day she was kidnapped from us.”Earlier on Sunday, the first three women freed from Gaza in the current ceasefire were released from the hospital, a spokesman for the Sheba Medical Centre said.ADVERTISEMENTItzik Horn, who has two sons held hostage in Gaza, says he feels happiness for the four hostages released “out of hell”, but also fears for what will come next.Iair Horn, 46, is expected to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire, but his brother Eitan, 38, is not.”On the one hand I have one son on the list (to be released in first phase) but have another who is not,” he said, adding that he hopes Israel will not resume fighting after the first part of the deal.He appealed to newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump to continue to exert pressure on both negotiators and the Israeli government.ADVERTISEMENT”We have to get everyone out of there,” Itzik said.Uncertainty about second phaseThe ceasefire reached earlier this month after more than a year of negotiations is aimed at ending the 15-month war, which was triggered by the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, as well as freeing hostages still held in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.Around 90 hostages are still being held, and Israeli authorities believe at least a third, and up to half of them were killed in the initial attack or died in captivity.The first phase of the ceasefire runs until early March and includes the release of a total of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. ADVERTISEMENTThe second and far more difficult phase has yet to be negotiated. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without an end to the war, while Israel has threatened to resume its offensive until Hamas is destroyed.Dani Miran, the father of hostage Omri Miran, who is not one of the 33 to be released, also says he has put his hope in President Trump.”I am full of hope, and most of us families put our hopes in President Trump. In President Trump because our government – they don’t do anything anymore, they don’t know how to make decisions, they need to be forced, to be pressured to do what is necessary to bring everyone back, everyone. I want my son back.”ADVERTISEMENTTalks on phase two are set to begin next Monday — day 16 of the ceasefire reached on 19 January.Israel has said that after the first phase of the ceasefire, it will decide how to proceed.It has also said it won’t agree to a complete withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas’ military and political capabilities are eliminated. For its part, Hamas says it won’t hand over the last hostages until Israel removes all troops from the territory.ADVERTISEMENTBoth sides will have to agree to a plan for governing Gaza. Hamas has said that it would be willing to step aside, but it may still seek a hand in any future government, which Israel has rejected.
