![]() ![]() Speaking at a joint press conference at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza on Friday, Mr Sanchez said the time had come for the international community and the European Union to once and for all recognize a Palestinian state. Sánchez also called for European Union recognition of a Palestinian state, saying Spain might do so on its own. The announcement came after the two leaders criticised Israel for the suffering of Palestinian civilians under Israeli military operations in Gaza. The Israeli government said on Friday it would summon the Belgian and Spanish ambassadors following remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his Belgian counterpart Alexander de Croo on the war between Israel and Hamas. ![]() More than 100 more Palestinian prisoners are due to be released over the coming four days and more may be freed if the truce is extended. “We are still afraid to feel happy and at the same time, we do not have it in us to be happy due to what is happening in Gaza,” she said. Israeli police were seen raiding her Jerusalem home before her daughter was released. “There is no real joy, even this little joy we feel as we wait,” said Sawsan Bkeer, the mother of 24-year-old Palestinian prisoner Marah Bkeer, jailed for eight years on knife and assault charges in 2015. Thirty nine Palestinian women and minors detained on various charges were freed under an accord brokered by Qatar that also saw the release of 13 Israeli hostages seized by Hamas gunmen during their assault on Israel last month. A single mother who pleaded with Benjamin Netanyahu to “free all of us” in a Hamas hostage video was among those released by the terror group on Friday.įor the families of Palestinian detainees freed by Israel under a hostage deal agreed with the Islamist group Hamas, Friday brought relief tinged with sadness at the fighting that is set to continue in Gaza after the expiry of a four-day truce, Reuters reports.The World Health Organization voiced concern over the fate of the head of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, whom Israeli forces detained over the facility’s alleged use by Hamas. ![]() Spain’s foreign ministry called in the Israeli ambassador to explain her government’s “false and unacceptable” allegations against the Spanish prime minister.Joe Biden said Friday’s release of a first group of hostages taken by Hamas was just a “start” and that there were “real” chances to extend a temporary truce in Gaza.Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Friday appeared to discredit the moribund Israel-Palestinian peace process and instead called on the international community to recognise the Palestinian state.A total of 28 Palestinian prisoners were released in the occupied West Bank, an AFP correspondent saw, while the other 11 were on their way to annexed east Jerusalem.Details of another hostage exchange are expected to be released in the coming hours, Joe Biden said on Friday evening.Four children, three mothers and a grandmother have been received at Israel’s Schneider medical centre after being released by Hamas earlier on Friday.Hamas released 24 hostages including Israeli women and children and Thai farm workers who were kidnapped on October 7. ![]()
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