Center East disaster reside: Hamas fingers our bodies of 4 Israeli hostages to Purple Cross in Gaza

After briefly being displayed on stage, the 4 coffins are actually being carried by Hamas fighters to the Purple Cross automobiles.

Dwell TV footage, which we’re selecting to not share, reveals the Purple Cross automobiles getting ready to obtain the our bodies of the hostages.

Along with Hamas fighters, there’s a massive crowd of civilians across the automobiles in southern Gaza.

In contrast to among the earlier handovers, the scene seems calm and with out celebration.

A reminder of the our bodies being handed over right now. They’re:

Shiri Bibas her two kids, Ariel and Kfir, who Hamas says have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, in addition to Oded Lifshitz, 83.

Purple Cross automobiles have now arrived on the website of the handover, reside TV footage reveals.

A Purple Cross official is now on a stage, ready by Hamas, signing paperwork.

Hamas members have gathered in Gaza forward of the handover:

The BBC has been requested to take away a documentary about kids residing in Gaza from BBC iPlayer after it emerged the movie’s 13-year-old narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a deputy agriculture minister within the territory’s Hamas-run authorities.

The company mentioned that it had found the household connections of the movie’s English-speaking narrator, a baby referred to as Abdullah, after the documentary was aired on BBC Two on Monday night.

A brand new textual content connected to the movie, Gaza: Tips on how to Survive a Warzone, reads: “The narrator of this film is 13-year-old Abdullah. His father has worked as a deputy agriculture minister for the Hamas-run government in Gaza. The production team had full editorial control of filming with Abdullah.”

The choice got here after the connection was uncovered in a blogpost by an antisemitism researcher, David Collier, on Tuesday and reported on within the Jewish Chronicle.

A bunch of 45 distinguished Jewish journalists and members of the media, together with current and former BBC workers, signed a letter to the BBC director common, Tim Davie, demanding the documentary be “removed” from iPlayer and questioning whether or not the movie violated Ofcom guidelines.

Hamas provides handover of all hostages to Israel if subsequent section of ceasefire agreed

Julian Borger

Forward of right now’s launch, Hamas mentioned it is able to launch all its remaining hostages in a single trade if the ceasefire settlement with Israel strikes ahead to a second section subsequent month.

The supply got here because the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, signalled his readiness to speak a few second section of the Gaza ceasefire after an prolonged delay, by appointing one in every of his closest advisers, Ron Dermer, a US-born cupboard minister and former ambassador to Washington, to steer the Israeli delegation to the talks.

Dermer replaces the heads of the Mossad and the Shin Guess safety service, who’ve led the negotiations till now and have steadily been at odds with Netanyahu over his reluctance to maneuver ahead with the ceasefire.

Within the last steps of the primary section, Hamas will hand over the our bodies of 4 Israeli hostages on Thursday, together with these of two younger boys from the identical household. The group will launch six hostages on Sunday after which switch 4 extra our bodies subsequent Thursday.

That can full the primary six-week section of the ceasefire, as a result of finish on 1 March, leaving an additional 58 hostages within the fingers of Hamas and allied militant teams in Gaza. Israel believes that 34 of the remaining hostages are useless.

The agreed plan for the second section was for hostages and our bodies of the useless to be exchanged for Palestinian detainees and prisoners in staggered teams. However Hamas instructed on Wednesday it was ready to speed up the method.

Hiya, we’re restarting our reside protection of the Center East.

Hamas is about to return the our bodies of 4 Israeli hostages on Thursday, together with a mom and her two kids who’ve lengthy been feared useless and had come to embody the nation’s agony following the 7 October 2023 assault.

The stays to be launched from the Gaza Strip are of Shiri Bibas and her two kids, Ariel and Kfir. Kfir was the youngest captive taken that day. Hamas has mentioned all three have been killed in an Israeli airstrike early within the conflict. The militant group additionally plans to launch the physique of Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 when he was kidnapped.

“The heart of an entire nation breaks,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Wednesday in anticipation of the our bodies being returned to Israel.

1000’s of individuals, together with massive numbers of masked and armed fighters from Hamas and different factions, gathered on the handover website on the outskirts of the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis, the place massive banners had been arrange, together with one displaying a picture of coffins draped in Israeli flags.

There have been no plans to broadcast the handover reside in Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, the place Israelis have gathered to look at the discharge of residing hostages. The sq. was empty because it rained on and off in each places, that are about 100 km aside.

In different key developments:

• Hamas has mentioned it is able to launch all its remaining hostages in a single trade if the ceasefire settlement with Israel strikes ahead to a second section subsequent month. A senior Hamas official, Taher al-Nunu, advised Agence France-Presse “We have informed the mediators that Hamas is ready to release all hostages in one batch during the second phase of the agreement, rather than in stages, as in the current first phase.”

• The supply got here because the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, signalled his readiness to speak a few second section of the Gaza ceasefire after an prolonged delay, by appointing one in every of his closest advisers, Ron Dermer, a US-born cupboard minister and former ambassador to Washington, to steer the Israeli delegation to the talks. Dermer replaces the heads of the Mossad and the Shin Guess safety service, who’ve led the negotiations till now and have steadily been at odds with Netanyahu over his reluctance to maneuver ahead with the ceasefire.

• Arab leaders will collect in Saudi Arabia on Friday to counter President Donald Trump’s plan for US management of Gaza and the expulsion of its inhabitants, diplomatic and authorities sources mentioned. The plan stirred uncommon unity amongst Arab states which roundly rejected the concept, however they may nonetheless disagree over who will govern the Palestinian territory and who pays for reconstruction.

• US secretary of state Marco Rubio met on Wednesday with the chief of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, after talks in Israel and in Saudi Arabia. The UAE has been key in mediating between Israel and Gaza. Wednesday’s assembly included discussions on synthetic intelligence, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon and the Purple Sea, which had been the positioning of assaults by Yemen’s Houthi rebels till the Gaza ceasefire a state division spokesperson mentioned.