Pars Today – Media reports indicate new obstructions by the prime minister of the Zionist regime regarding the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
The Hebrew-language website Walla, citing Zionist regime officials, reported that Tel Aviv has asked mediators to make separate efforts to secure the release of 29-year-old Arbel Yahud, a Zionist prisoner held by Palestinian resistance forces. According to Pars Today, Tel Aviv has announced that this female Zionist prisoner must be released before next Saturday to allow Palestinian displaced persons to return to the northern areas.
This demand by the Zionist regime constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
The Zionist regime’s broadcasting authority reported that contacts between Tel Aviv and mediators are ongoing in this regard. The office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the Zionist regime, had also stated that the return of Palestinian displaced persons to the northern areas is tied to the release of this Zionist prisoner.
Arbel Yahud is a military trainee in the aerospace programs of the Zionist regime.
Speculations suggest that by prioritizing the release of Arbel Yahud, Netanyahu is attempting to reduce the public pressure from the defeat in the Gaza war.
Before the attack on Gaza, Netanyahu had claimed that he would eliminate Hamas and free Zionist prisoners through military action—claims that were not fulfilled, forcing Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas. This defeat has been met with severe criticism in Zionist circles, leading to the resignation of several Israeli officials and military personnel.
Meanwhile, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movements have reacted to the Zionist regime’s new condition for the return of Palestinian displaced persons.
A prominent source among Hamas leaders, in an interview with al Jazeera, emphasized that the movement has informed mediators that Arbel Yahud, the female Zionist prisoner held by the resistance forces, is alive.
A person in charge in the Islamic Jihad movement also stressed that the release of this Zionist prisoner will be carried out within the framework of the ceasefire agreement.
Hamas, in a statement on Saturday, accused the Zionist regime of obstructing the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by keeping al-Rashid Street in Gaza closed and preventing the return of Palestinian displaced persons to the northern areas.
These obstructions come as the people of the West Bank warmly welcomed a freed Palestinian prisoner on Saturday evening.
The Palestinian people, chanting slogans in support of the resistance and shouting the names of Mohammed Deif and the late martyr Yahya Sinwar, the former head of Hamas’s political bureau, expressed their support for the resistance during the reception of freed prisoner “Nasr Barham Daoud” in the settlement of Beita, south of Nablus.
On Saturday evening, as part of the ceasefire agreement, after the release of 200 Palestinian prisoners, four female Zionist prisoners were handed over to the Red Cross.
Following the handover of the four female Zionist prisoners to the Red Cross, images were released showing Hamas fighters holding weapons belonging to Israeli special forces. These weapons were likely seized during the “al-Aqsa Storm” operation.
The Zionist regime, after a year and three months of savage warmongering and failing to achieve its goals—such as freeing its captured soldiers through ground intervention, eliminating the popular resistance of Hamas, and destroying Gaza’s military capability to use rockets—finally agreed to a ceasefire with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Wednesday, January 15. This agreement came into effect on Sunday afternoon, January 19.
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