Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners, allegedly killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, to International Red Cross teams as part of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.<\/p>\n
The bodies of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, and Kfir Bibas were delivered to the International Red Cross in coffins in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip and are being transported to Israel.<\/p>\n
Abu Ubaidah, spokesperson for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades<\/em>, the military wing of Hamas, stated, “All of them were alive before the Zionist occupation planes deliberately bombed their places of detention.”<\/p>\n According to the agreement, Israel will release a group of Palestinian prisoners on February 22 in exchange for the funerals of four Israelis.<\/p>\n Hamas had announced that it would hand over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners to the Red Cross on February 20 as part of the negotiations and that six Israeli prisoners would be released on February 22, instead of three as previously planned.<\/p>\n The ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement reached between Hamas and Israel entered into force on Sunday, January 19 at 12:15 PM.<\/p>\n Within the scope of the agreement, on Monday, January 27, the Netzarim Corridor was opened to allow the passage of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from south to north, and the Israeli army withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor on February 9.<\/p>\n The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was opened on February 1 for the evacuation of the sick and wounded after eight months of occupation by the Israeli army.<\/p>\n In the first six rounds of the prisoner exchange, 1,135 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, 19 Israelis, and 5 Thai prisoners in Gaza were released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners, allegedly killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, to International Red Cross teams as part of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement. The bodies of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas, and Kfir Bibas were delivered to the International Red Cross in coffins in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6895,1236,6900,6897,1211,1612,1400,294,503,988,812,4123,6894,6901,6896,5435,825,6898,5621,2470,2281,4125,5742,6899,1607],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middleeast","tag-abu-ubaidah","tag-agreement","tag-ariel-bibas","tag-bodies-of-hostages","tag-ceasefire","tag-gaza-conflict","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-headline","tag-hostage","tag-israel","tag-israeli-prisoners","tag-izz-ad-din-al-qassam-brigades","tag-kfir-bibas","tag-killed-in-attack","tag-netzarim-corridor","tag-occupation","tag-oded-lifshitz","tag-palestinian-prisoners","tag-prisoner-exchange","tag-prisoner-exchange-deal","tag-rafah-border-crossing","tag-red-cross","tag-shiri-bibas","tag-zionist"],"yoast_head":"\n