Under the dark winter sky on the late winter days, under the occasional rain, this was a moment when all Israelites were scared.
Return of the dead.
It was involved in holding Israeli hostages for more than 500 days, as all mobile phones have started so far.
Again, the stage was adjacent to a huge poster highlighting the devastating consequences of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the resolve of the Palestinians.
However, instead of the ghost, sometimes debilitating survivors, there were four black ffins, each with a photograph and a name. .
The missile casing had a slogan: “They were killed by our bombs.” Hamas has long claimed that all four of them were killed in Israeli air raids in Gaza.
As before, Red Cross officials were on hand to oversee the process. In a rare official statement on the matter, they urged Hamas to make the handover in a private, dignified manner.
Their efforts were clearly in vain, but they tried to screen the cos from public scrutiny, draped each into a white sheet before chasing them off.
The crowd watching was smaller than usual, probably due to the heavy rain.
After a handover on Thursday morning, at a military ceremony at the edge of the Gaza Strip, the hostage-carrying ffins were covered with Israeli flags and prayers provided by the Army Chief Rabbis.
A convoy of vehicles then proceeds north towards the Abukavir Forensic Institute in Jaffa, where official identification of the remains is being made.
Along the route, a small group of Israelis stood quietly in the rain, carrying Israeli flags and yellow flags – colors associated with hostages and their supporters.
The all-nighters were particularly gloomy at Karmei Gat, where evacuated members of Kibbutz Nir Oz live and waited for them to return home.
All four hostages released Thursday were seized from Nir Oz on October 7, 2023.
Hostage Square in Tel Aviv was a study of sadness, with people crying, sitting on the ground, and heads in their hands.
Redheaded Vivas Boys – Ariel and Kfir’s faces are painted on walls, road signs and windows all over the country. Nevertheless, fearing the worst, he nonetheless clings to the hope that his brother may have survived with his mother, Siri.
“We were devastated by the news,” Orly Maron said outside Abu Kabir.
“I have a redheaded grandson and seeing the photos is really heartbreaking.”
Meanwhile, Oded’s Lifschitz son Yizhar told Israeli radio that he had always feared his father’s health since the violent abduction in October 2023.
Oded was 84 years old at the time. He and his wife, Yochev, were both taken to Khan Yunis in Gaza, where they were separated and never met again.
Yocheved was released by Hamas two weeks after the attack.
“We need to close this wound and move forward,” Yizhar added that his father, a well-known journalist and peace activist, had a long vision of how to resolve conflicts in the Middle East. Ta.
“It’s sad that we went through this whole cycle and didn’t solve it,” Yizhar said. “We leave it as something simmering and see where we are now.”
Meanwhile, returning to Gaza, some Palestinians expressed anger that Israeli bodies had been handed over, but the unknown number of Palestinians killed in Israeli military campaigns were eschatological in the Gaza Strip. It remains buried in the remains.
Additionally, as many as 665 bodies are held in the figures’ cemetery, Palestinian protest group, a national campaign to restore the bodies of Mar teachers. Some have been held for decades.
“I don’t like this agreement at all,” Ikram Abu Salout said in Khan Younis. “They don’t remove the tiled rubs and don’t even know where their children or their families are.”
As she was talking, the bulldozer flew an Egyptian flag and finally arrived in northern Gaza. Israel has allowed the equipment to enter in exchange for extradition on Thursday and the release of six more live hostages this Saturday.
