Hamas militants have released an initial group of hostages to the Red Cross as part of an exchange with Israel. Israel's military has vowed to resume operations in Gaza after the four-day pause in fighting.
“As a Palestinian, my heart is broken for my brothers in Gaza, so I can’t really celebrate,” Abdulqader Khatib, a United Nations worker whose son was also freed on Friday, told the Associated Press.
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majid al-Ansari confirmed “the release of 39 women and children detained in Israeli jails thus upholding the commitment of the first day of the agreement.”
“The deep pain that family members separated from their loved ones feel is indescribable,” said Fabrizio Carboni, the International Committee of the Red Cross’s regional director for the Middle East.
“The time has come for the international community, and especially European countries, to take a decision on the recognition of the Palestinian state,” he said while speaking at the Rafah crossing that links Egypt to the Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day they spoke with Palestinian officials in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and on Thursday they met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Balousha, who was speaking from the Jordanian capital Amman after leaving the Gaza Strip, said that people in the Palestinian enclave were both “in shock” at the scenes of destruction and “relieved” over the pause in fighting, and were hoping for an extension of the truce with Israel or a “complete cease-fire.”
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“As a Palestinian, my heart is broken for my brothers in Gaza, so I can’t really celebrate,” Abdulqader Khatib, a United Nations worker whose son was also freed on Friday, told the Associated Press.
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majid al-Ansari confirmed “the release of 39 women and children detained in Israeli jails thus upholding the commitment of the first day of the agreement.”
“The deep pain that family members separated from their loved ones feel is indescribable,” said Fabrizio Carboni, the International Committee of the Red Cross’s regional director for the Middle East.
“The time has come for the international community, and especially European countries, to take a decision on the recognition of the Palestinian state,” he said while speaking at the Rafah crossing that links Egypt to the Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day they spoke with Palestinian officials in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and on Thursday they met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Balousha, who was speaking from the Jordanian capital Amman after leaving the Gaza Strip, said that people in the Palestinian enclave were both “in shock” at the scenes of destruction and “relieved” over the pause in fighting, and were hoping for an extension of the truce with Israel or a “complete cease-fire.”
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