Hamas Promises to Release the Three Hostages as Planned
Hamas on Thursday signaled that a crisis threatening to unravel the Gaza truce deal could be avoided, despite uncertainty over the number of hostages due to be released by the terror group on Saturday and conflicting reports over aid supplies entering the Strip.
Hamas said it was committed to implementing the deal, “including the exchange of prisoners according to the specified timeline,” but did not specify how many hostages would go free on Saturday, when three are scheduled to be released. President Donald Trump has demanded that “all” hostages be released by noon on Saturday.
Egypt’s state-aligned Extra News reported that Cairo and Doha had successfully “overcome obstacles,” citing an official source as saying that Israel and Hamas were now committed to implementing the deal.
The terror group said that mediators had promised to resolve issues preventing the continued flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, though a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a Qatari report that mobile homes and heavy equipment were entering the Strip.
The Prime Minister’s Office called the Al Jazeera report, which claimed the mobile homes and earth-moving equipment would be allowed into the Strip on Thursday, “fake news.”
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