Israel-Gaza newest: Hamas palms over three hostages as 369 Palestinian prisoners to be launched | EUROtoday

It appears to be like like Hamas and Islamic Jihad tried to maintain the crowds again for this hostage launch, after earlier scenes the place crowds mobbed hostages as they have been freed.

They created a large space away from the stage the place they’ve arrange an indication studying “no migration except to Jerusalem” – seemingly a reference to President Trump’s concepts about displacing Gaza’s 2 million robust inhabitants.

This handover was a big change to the earlier two.

The launch was much more calm and organised, with a big clearing in entrance of the stage as crowds have been pushed again.

The hostages – Sasha Troufanov, Iair Horn and Sagui Dekel Chen – look in higher well being than final week’s releases. All three addressed the crowds with a microphone on stage.

Israeli forces have confirmed the handover, saying in an announcement: “According to information communicated by the Red Cross, three hostages were transferred to them, and they are on their way to IDF and ISA forces in the Gaza Strip.”

A number of exchanges in the past, Arbel Yehoud was mobbed by tons of of individuals as militants struggled to get her to the ICRC vehicles in scenes Israelis discovered horrifying.

All three males set to be launched are on stage, addressing the crowds.

It seems to be Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha Troufanov who have been all kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz, the place some 80 of roughly 400 residents have been taken hostage through the October 7 assault.

They are holding what seem like presents and certificates of their launch – Sasha Troufanov, a Russian-Israeli, was the primary to return out of the car, who was being held by Islamic Jihad.

Three Israeli hostages are presently being free of captivity in Gaza imminently.

They have been escorted onto a stage by Hamas fighters. They are US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, Russian-Israeli Sasha (Alexander) Trufanov and Argentine-Israeli Iair Horn.

The Vatican’s lead diplomat criticised US president Donald Trump’s plan to forcibly switch Palestinians from Gaza earlier than a US takeover of the territory.

“No deportations, and this is one of the fundamental points,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, mentioned at an occasion in Rome on Thursday.

“Whoever was born and has lived in Gaza must remain on their land,” he added according to the Vatican’s official news outlet.

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday Tehran’s enemies may be able to strike the country’s nuclear centres but cannot deprive it or its ability to build new ones.

He made his comments after the Washington Post reported that US intelligence believes Israel is likely to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear program by mid-year.

In a rare rebuke of the US president, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke out against what he called Donald Trump’s “challenges” to the world – including a proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza – saying his actions pose a threat to global peace.

Erdogan and Trump had formed a close personal relationship during Trump’s first term and referred to each other as friends, despite the often-strained ties between the two NATO countries.

“To btell the reality, I don’t discover Mr. Trump’s behaviour prior to now interval and his present statements and challenges to many nations on the earth to be proper, and I don’t see these as a optimistic improvement,” Erdogan said.

The Turkish president was in Jakarta on Wednesday and was interviewed by Indonesian television anchor Najwa Shihab, which aired on YouTube on Thursday.

Israeli military says more than 90 militants arrested over the past week in the West Bank.

Yemen’s Houthis will immediately take military action if the US and Israel try to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza, the Iran-backed group’s leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech on Thursday.

An Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza’s devastating 15-month-old war took effect on January 19 but has appeared close to collapse his week amid mutual accusations of violations.

US President Donald Trump has infuriated the Arab world in presenting a plan to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza and take over the enclave to turn it into a beach resort.

Houthi said his group would intervene with missiles and drones and attack vessels in the Red Sea if the United States and Israel tried to remove Palestinians from Gaza by force.

“I name on all of the armed forces to be prepared for army intervention if the prison Trump carries out his risk,” Houthi said.

The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships off the shores of Yemen since November 2023 in support of Gaza Palestinian militants fighting Israel, disrupting global shipping trade and causing route changes and losses.