By TheNewsDESK
|FOREIGN| Hamas is today expected to provide Israel with the name of a third hostage to be freed from Gaza tomorrow under a hostage-ceasefire deal along with civilian woman Arbel Yehoud and soldier Agam Berger.
It has been reported that Keith Siegel, 65, a US native, will be released this week, though there has been no confirmation and it is unclear if this will happen tomorrow or on Saturday, when three more hostages are set to be freed from Gaza.
In exchange for the hostages, Israel will free Palestinian security prisoners — 30 for each civilian, and 50 for Berger including 30 terrorists serving life sentences.
The extra batch of hostages to be released this week was added to the schedule after a dispute over the implementation of the truce deal with Hamas in Gaza was resolved on Monday.
Seven former hostages have been released under the Gaza deal so far — three civilians and four IDF soldiers — who were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst into Israel, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Eighty-seven of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza this month.
|The TIMES Of Israel|
Hamas Expected To Confirm Name Of Third Hostage To Be Freed Tomorrow Along With Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger
