Israel-Hamas, the agreement is postponed: because the release of the hostages takes time to arrive

The hostages will only be released on Friday. This is what the Israeli national security advisor announced, as reported by Haaretz. The head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, explained that Friday is the first scheduled date for the release of the hostages. “Negotiations for the release of our prisoners are progressing and continue continuously,” Hanegbi said in a statement released by the prime minister’s office, adding that the release phase of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas will continue as planned and that the first part of the Israeli agreement hostages will be released on Friday. What caused the delay? An Israeli official familiar with hostage release negotiations told Haaretz that the delay in implementation stems from administrative issues “being resolved” and urged “not to worry.”

Meanwhile, the Biden administration expects the trial to begin tomorrow morning as the parties work out the “final logistical details,” US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement last night. “The agreement was agreed and remains agreed. The parties are working on the final logistical details, in particular for the first day of implementation – said Watson, quoted by the North American media -. “We believe that nothing should be left to chance when the hostages begin to return home. Our main goal is to ensure they are brought home safely. All of this is on track and we expect implementation to begin on Friday morning.”

A senior US official said more time was needed to iron out details about the location and whereabouts of each of the hostages, as well as the logistics of moving them. The decision was made to wait another day to minimize things going wrong, he said, adding that Israel made this decision together with Qatar and Egypt, and that the United States was consulted and agreed. The American official also said that the fact that Israel had not yet received the names of the first group of hostages to be released was not a serious problem, but added that it would be worrying if a list was not yet available this evening.