{"id":3054,"date":"2025-01-31T00:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israel-frees-palestinian-prisoners-after-chaotic-hostage-handover\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:39:43","slug":"israel-frees-palestinian-prisoners-after-chaotic-hostage-handover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/israel-frees-palestinian-prisoners-after-chaotic-hostage-handover\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners After Chaotic Hostage Handover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel and Hamas exchanged a new group of hostages and prisoners on Thursday in a handover that devolved into chaos as the armed militants struggled to control a chanting, jostling crowd of Palestinians trying to catch a glimpse of Israelis held captive during 15 months of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas released a total of eight Israeli and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/thai-hostages-gaza.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">Thai hostages<\/a> in the Gaza Strip, including the tightly choreographed handover of an Israeli soldier, Agam Berger, 20, in the northern town of Jabaliya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the tumult surrounding the release of two other Israeli hostages \u2014 Arbel Yehud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, in the city of Khan Younis \u2014 infuriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. It led his office to announce he had suspended the release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as called for under the truce brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The episode briefly cast doubt on whether the prisoner release would happen at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Netanyahu blasted the \u201cshocking scenes\u201d of crowds yelling and jostling to get nearer to a fearful-looking Ms. Yehud and a grim-looking Mr. Moses. \u201cThis is additional proof of the inconceivable brutality of the Hamas terrorist organization,\u201d the Israel prime minister said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He called on the international mediators to secure guarantees from Hamas for \u201cthe safe exit of our hostages in the next rounds.\u201d The Israeli government later relented, releasing the imprisoned Palestinians, saying that mediators had promised safe passage for hostages in future exchanges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement, Hamas said that the turnout of the crowds for the hostage handovers showed that Palestinians were determined to remain on their land. To Israelis, the chaos illustrated Hamas\u2019s desire to humiliate and torment the hostages even as they were being freed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In previous handovers, the militants have driven hostages into jubilant, sometimes jeering crowds before transferring them to Red Cross officials, who then handed them to Israeli officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-hostages-released-arbel-yehud-agam-berger-gadi-moses.html\" title=\"\">three Israeli hostages<\/a>, Hamas on Thursday freed five Thai agricultural workers who were among those abducted when the militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. They were Pongsak Thanna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watchara Sriaoun, Bannawat Seathao and Surasak Lamnao\u200b. The fate of one remaining Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, remained unclear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exchanges came during the first phase of a provisional cease-fire lasting 42 days, and Israel and Hamas still have to negotiate the next one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the hostages were freed in Khan Younis on Thursday, large numbers of Palestinians gathered near the home of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza who was killed by Israel in October. A small white van carrying the captives and surrounded by armed gunmen slowly pushed its way through the yelling crowds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Photos and video footage show Ms. Yehud, one of the last living female hostages to be held in Gaza, walking cautiously through the throngs while surrounded by rifle-wielding militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad as they made their way toward a Red Cross convoy. The Red Cross handed Ms. Yehud over to Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The third freed Israeli hostage, Mr. Moses, was also forced to wend his way through a tight crowd of spectators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yves Daccord, a former director general of the Red Cross, said the handovers in Khan Younis were \u201crisky,\u201d \u201cunacceptable\u201d and \u201cabsolutely psychological torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cReleasing hostages in this way creates an enormous trauma on top of everything that has already happened,\u201d he said in an interview. Ideally, he said, hostages should be released away from crowds and cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After her release, Ms. Yehud was taken to Sheba Hospital in the city of Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. She was met with crowds in Israel, too, but they were welcoming. \u201cOur life\u2019s mission to bring Arbel back to us has succeeded,\u201d her family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Yehud was 28 when she was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-arbel-yehud-third-generation-on-kibbutz-nir-oz\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">taken hostage<\/a> along with her boyfriend<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-arbel-yehud-third-generation-on-kibbutz-nir-oz\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a> Ariel Cunio, from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. Mr. Cunio is believed to still be a captive in Gaza. Ms. Yehud\u2019s brother, Dolev Yehud, a medic, was identified <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/taken-captive-siblings-dolev-arbel-yehud-deep-roots-at-kibbutz\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a> as having been killed during the Hamas-led attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement posted by the Hostage Families Forum, an umbrella organization, Ms. Yehud\u2019s family urged Israeli officials to pursue the cease-fire agreement until all hostages were released. \u201cEveryone must be brought home immediately so that we can heal as a society,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Berger, the soldier returned home from northern Gaza, was in \u201cgood\u201d condition, according to Dr. Eytan Wirtheim, the chief executive of Beilinson Hospital, where she was taken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She had been 19 and serving as a lookout at the Nahal Oz army base near the border with Gaza when the Hamas-led militants stormed the facility, killing more than 50 soldiers and abducting her and six other soldiers. Four of them were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/25\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-hostages.html\" title=\"\">released in an exchange<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those four soldiers have been \u201cimproving from day to day\u201d in the hospital, Dr. Wirtheim said in a televised statement. He said they had decided to stay in the hospital to keep Ms. Berger company during her first days of freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Moses, a farming expert, was 79 when he was abducted in Kibbutz Nir Oz after trying to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-father-kidnap.html\" title=\"\">reason with the marauding militants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His partner, Efrat Katz, had hidden inside a safe room in their home with her daughter and two visiting grandchildren, until they, too, were taken. Their kidnapping was captured on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/09\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-father-kidnap.html?searchResultPosition=4\" title=\"\">a video<\/a> that showed them squashed together in the back of a pickup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Katz was killed when an Israeli helicopter responding to the attack fired on the vehicle. Her daughter and grandchildren were released in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The freed Thai men underwent initial medical examinations on Thursday and were found to be in \u201cgood\u201d condition, a spokesman for Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vilas Thanna, the father of Mr. Pongsak, who worked on a fruit farm, could barely get the words out as he digested the news of his son\u2019s freedom \u201cWhen we are happy, we cry,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen we are sad, we also cry. But these are happy tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Economic hardship has spurred thousands of Thais, particularly from the Isaan region of northeastern Thailand, to take agricultural jobs in Israel. Thai farmhands working in Israel suffered a heavy toll in the 2023 Hamas-led attacks. At least 39 were killed and at least 31 taken hostage, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Twenty-three of them were released in November 2023. Two others died in captivity, the Foreign Ministry said last May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas had pledged to free at least 33 hostages in exchange for more than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners during the cease-fire\u2019s first phase. On Thursday, Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 32 serving life sentences for deadly attacks against Israelis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before the releases, Palestinians stood outside a government recreation center in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, restlessly checking their phones for updates on the prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Samar Faisal stood in the crisp winter air, shivering as much from excitement as the cold. She was in disbelief, she said. After more than 20 years in an Israeli prison, her brother was being released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m anxious and praying for the moment I finally see him,\u201d Ms. Faisal said, as volunteers in fluorescent vests moved through the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For some waiting outside the recreation center, anticipation was tempered by sorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Alaa Zubeidi was dressed in black in memory of her eldest son, Mohamed, who she said had been killed by an Israeli drone strike in September in their hometown, Jenin. Now, she was awaiting the release of her husband, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/zakaria-zubeidi-release-israel-hamas.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">Zakariya Zubeidi<\/a>, who over the past two decades has been a militant, a theater director and an escaped prisoner. Israeli forces recaptured him in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Finally, around 7 p.m., a chain of buses arrived, carrying dozens of former Palestinian prisoners. Sixty-seven arrived in Ramallah on Thursday, including 27 children, officials said. An additional 14 Palestinians arrived in Jerusalem and nine in Gaza, while 20 were sent to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Beitunia, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as Red Cross buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrived, Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli forces, who fired stun grenades in response, footage live-streamed on Arabic television networks showed. It was unclear if there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exchanges were the third swap in the first phase in the 42-day truce that halted the fighting between Hamas and Israel. On Saturday, Hamas is expected to release three more male hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-13\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In all, some 250 people were abducted from Israel during the 2023 attack and about 1,200 killed, the Israelis said. Israel responded by unleashing airstrikes across Gaza. The devastation displaced millions of Palestinians and led to the death of more than 47,000, according to Gazan health officials, whose figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, months after Israel announced it had killed the leader of Hamas\u2019s military wing, Muhammad Deif, in an airstrike, a Hamas official confirmed the death in a video statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Isabel Kershner<!-- -->, <!-- -->Avishag Shaar-Yashuv<!-- -->, <!-- -->Liam Stack<!-- --> and <!-- -->Fatima AbdulKarim<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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