Israel

More than 30 international leaders will meet this Monday, including Donald Trump, Pedro Sanchez, and Emmanuel Macron, while Israel will not participate in the meeting.

Everything is ready in Israel to receive the 20 prisoners held by Hamas. The Palestinian group has reported that the prisoners are grouped together waiting to be handed over to the International Red Cross.

The first phase of the agreement and the ceasefire in Gaza are already in place after the withdrawal of troops to the yellow line, following the plan proposed by Donald Trump and agreed by Hamas and Israel.

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Everything is ready for the release of the Israeli hostages. The Israeli army will take them from Gaza to the military base in Reime and from there to hospitals.

The last time they have called for the release of Israelis abducted from the attack of 7 October 2023 is in a different context, given the validity of the ceasefire. According to the agreement with the US mediation, within 72 hours, Hamas will release 20 people abducted and alive.

According to the UNRWA agency, humanitarian aid trucks have begun to enter the Rafah Pass in the direction of the Gaza Strip.

The images illustrate the current situation in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, there are 7000 dead under the rubble, 3600 missing persons, but as many suspect that no one will claim them, as 2700 families are believed to have been killed.

Thousands of Gazans have already begun to leave their shelters in the south of the city and return to Gaza, while many Israelite soldiers have not yet crossed the "yellow line", as the exchange of hostages and prisoners has not yet taken place.

It appears that the US President is planning to hold a sort of summit on Gaza in Egypt, where he intends to meet European and Arab leaders at the beginning of next week.

Thus, Israeli troops have begun to leave Gaza, and the 72-hour deadline for Hamas to release the hostages has begun.

Once the agreement with Hamas has been ratified, the ceasefire should enter into force within a maximum of 24 hours. The agreement also stipulates that the exchange of hostages with Palestinian prisoners must take place within a maximum of 72 hours. 

US, Arab and Turkish mediators have given them assurances of an end to the war, as explained by Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official and member of the negotiating team.

Representatives of the LAB and Steilas unions have appeared in Vitoria-Gasteiz to explain their support for the day of unemployment called for on 15 October in Education. They have called on all members of the educational community to participate in the demonstrations in towns and cities and to show their support for Palestine.

The President of the United States has stated that he will travel to Egypt to sign the agreement reached.

The United Nations will manage the distribution of this aid, as they did before. The EITB correspondent in the Middle East, Mikel Ayestaran, has explained that "the situation in Gaza is extreme and the priority is to combat famine. Israel has used hunger as a weapon over the past two years."

Barbara Ruiz Balzola, head of UNRWA Euskadi, said they are waiting for Israel's permission to enter Gaza and begin distributing aid. "The situation in Gaza is apocalyptic. 50,000 children suffer from acute malnutrition."

The head of EITB International has pointed out that the details of the agreement between Hamas and Israel are not yet known, but that "an agreement involving the silencing of weapons is always good news."  

Khan Yunis Gazatis have taken to the streets to celebrate the first phase of the agreement reached this Thursday between Israel and Hamas, while families of Israeli hostages have urged Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept the agreement as soon as possible in order to avoid "serious consequences for the hostages and soldiers."

EITB's Middle East correspondent, Mikel Ayestaran, has explained that the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas will enter into force at noon (11 a.m. in the Basque Country). Thereafter, a period of 72 hours will be opened to implement what was agreed in the first phase of the peace plan for Gaza, including the exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli army.