Father of youngest hostage among three men to be released on Saturday, Hamas says

The Palestinian Armed Group Hamas released the names of three hostages that it will be liberated on Saturday under the ceasefire with Israel.

They are the Israelis Aurir Calderon, 53, Yarden Pepas, 34, and the Israeli Americans Keith Siegel, 65 years old.

Mr. Bibas is the father of KFIR, the youngest hostage was 10 months old when Hamas kidnapped him. His wife, Sherry and their other son, Ariel, were also arrested.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said that Israel had received the hostage list.

Israel will issue another group of Palestinian prisoners in return.

This will lead to the fourth place of this exchange of hostages for prisoners since the start of the shooting on January 19.

About 251 hostages were taken by Hamas when Israel attacked October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people.

The attack sparked a war that destroyed Gaza. The Israeli military attack was killed for 15 months, 4,7,460 Palestinians in the region, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Offer Kalderon and Yarden BIBAS were taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, while KFARGEL was taken from KFAR AZA.

The wife of Mr. Bebas Chery, and their two children, Ariel, now five, and KFIR, and now two, they were also transferred. Their fate is unknown.

Their launch will bring the number of hostages edited under the ceasefire deal so far to 18.

The Palestinian Prisoners Association says that nine prisoners spend the provisions of life and 81 will be issued for long periods on Saturday. Israel did not comment.

Four hundred Palestinian prisoners – starting with those who spend long provisions for bombings and other attacks of teenagers who were held without charge – have been released.

Most of them returned to the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, while many of the most dangerous violators were deported.

The last exchange, which occurred on Thursday, showed the risk of the arrangement. Israel was briefly late to allow prisoners to go after it was dealt with through eight hostages while releasing them.

Where seven of the eight were released in Khan Yunis, Crowds of spectators – many pictures with mobile phones – have been paid – He also led the armed prisoners to the Red Cross vehicles before being transferred to Israel. In a separate edition, in Jabaliya, the eighth was removed through a scene of the rubble from the Israeli air strikes at an event run by the theater and put it on a platform before handing it over to the Red Cross.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office later said that he had since received the intermediaries, “a commitment that a safe exit of our hostages” has not been released.