Sure. Starved. Wounded. Tortured. These are the situations that some hostages being held in Gaza nonetheless face, in accordance with data their households mentioned they’d acquired from Israeli army and safety officers after Hamas launched three captives on Saturday as a part of a cease-fire settlement.
The emaciated look of three hostages launched in a ceremony in Gaza staged by Hamas final weekend — Eli Sharabi, 52; Or Levy, 34; and Ohad Ben-Ami, 56 — and the small print of their captivity have family of the remaining captives sounding the alarm concerning the pressing want for the continuation of the phased cease-fire deal. The urgency comes because the militant group mentioned on Monday it might indefinitely postpone the following hostage releases, set for Saturday, citing Israeli cease-fire violations.
Earlier than they had been handed over to Purple Cross officers in change for 183 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, the frail, painfully skinny hostages had been paraded onstage earlier than a crowd within the metropolis of Deir al-Balah, Gaza, every holding a Hamas-issued “launch certificates,” and made to recite phrases written for them — together with due to the militants who had held them for 16 months.
A physician in command of overseeing the remedy of two of the freed Israeli hostages later mentioned they had been in poor situation. The third was in a “extreme dietary state,” in accordance with an official on the hospital the place he was being handled.
Hamas has mentioned it treats its captives benevolently.
Beneath the primary phases of the cease-fire deal, the armed Palestinian group agreed to free 25 dwelling hostages and the our bodies of eight who had been killed, in change for about 1,500 Palestinian prisoners. To date, about half of these exchanges have been carried out.
Hamas on Saturday denounced “the brutal remedy of our prisoners” by Israeli officers. “This consists of ongoing assaults, torture, and disrespect for age or the extreme well being situations suffered by many prisoners,” it mentioned in a press release, highlighting what it mentioned was the distinction in remedy between the hostages and the prisoners.
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