After nearly 500 days in captivity in Gaza, with little access to media, recently freed hostages have many questions.
Israeli national Sagui Dekel-Chen along with two other hostages as the Gaza ceasefire remained on track after a tense week.
In my view, Israel’s readiness is not a bluff; it reflects a genuine intent to enforce the transfer through military means. This might not involve a full reoccupation of Gaza, but rather relentless bombings, starvation, and the creation of unliveable conditions to force Palestinians to flee, echoing the strategies used during the Nakba.
Al-Sayed, whose release was conducted in private, is from the Arab Israeli Bedouin community in Israel and was seized in 2015 after crossing into Gaza on his own. Six Israeli hostages are now back in Israel after being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza.
Israel has delayed an expected release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange for returned Israeli hostages “until further notice,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said early Sunday.
Three Israeli men held hostage in the Gaza Strip are set to be released on Saturday in exchange for more than 300 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.