All three of the boys to be launched Saturday had been seized in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of many communities across the Gaza Strip that was overrun by Hamas gunmen within the 2023 assault, Reuters reported. Horn’s brother Eitan was taken on the identical time and stays in captivity, it stated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week threatened extra assaults if Hamas didn’t abide by the cease-fire deal and free extra detainees. “If Hamas doesn’t return our hostages by Saturday midday, the cease-fire will finish, and the IDF will return to intense combating till Hamas is lastly defeated,” Netanyahu stated in a press release on Feb. 11.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola crossed into the Gaza Strip from Israel at midday Thursday to “witness firsthand the humanitarian help supply on the border area,” her workplace advised POLITICO.
U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Monday that “all hell goes to interrupt out” and that the cease-fire settlement ought to be terminated if Hamas doesn’t launch the remaining hostages by noon Saturday. “In the event that they’re not returned — all of them, not in dribs and drabs, not two and one and three and 4 and two — by Saturday at 12 o’clock,” Trump stated. “And after that, I might say, all hell goes to interrupt out.”
