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I informed the Minister of Defense today (Tuesday) that by virtue of my recognition of my responsibility for the IDF's failure on October 7th, and at a time when the IDF has significant achievements and is in the process of implementing the agreement to release our hostages, I have requested to leave my role on March 6th, 2025,
Halevi said in a statement released by the IDF I would like to express my appreciation to the Chief of Staff and thank him for his contribution to the IDF throughout his years of service as a fighter and as a commander, and for his part in the great achievements of the IDF in the difficult war that was forced upon us."
In response, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said What concerns us these days is that the police may decide to invade the house again, claiming people are coming to congratulate him. We cross our fingers not to have this situation,
The situation in the prison was very hard. They beat us every day, didn’t feed us, saying: ‘You are security prisoners; you don’t deserve to eat,
They put me in a prison cell with a camera on the toilet and another camera in the rest of the cell for 3 days. So I decided not to eat or drink because I couldn’t use the toilet that was filmed by them. They refused to provide health needs for me,
It is an indescribable feeling that he will finally be among us and we will meet him after 20 years and four months,
The entire Palestinian people are prisoners,
I was affected by scabies, and they didn’t give me treatment for six months. I still have scars,
I don’t like to remember those days. I want to continue my studies, and I look forward to my future, and maybe even to study abroad,
Now she is waiting for her father to come back,
Please let my son come home safely,
There is more hope for me now.”
But with Sunday’s release of hostages, she said Give them the chance to return home as well. I’m worried about all the Thai hostages, that they might not return home,
I worry about how they are living over there. I want to hear how things are over there, what their conditions are. We don’t even know if they are alive,
We are relieved that those released can be reunited with their loved ones. Ensuring their safe return and providing the necessary care at this critical moment is a great responsibility,
said Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross More families are waiting anxiously for their loved ones to come home. We call on all parties to continue to adhere to their commitments to ensure the next operations can take place safely. Our teams are ready to continue to implement the agreement so that more hostages and detainees are released, and more families reunited."
There’s this double feeling we’re living in: on the one hand, this feeling of freedom that we thank everyone for and, on the other hand, this pain of losing so many Palestinian martyrs,
Jarrar told The Associated Press news agency after she was released The list of prisoners, the hundreds of names that have been released, are mostly serving administrative detention, which is a tactic used by Israel to keep people in prison indefinitely without charges,
The release of Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, does not mean that the conditions of captivity have changed. Israeli negotiators insisted that nothing will change inside Israeli prisons,
Basil Farraj, an assistant professor at Birzeit University, told Al Jazeera If they do something very little to challenge the status quo, they are faced with jail time,
according to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim
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