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Ceasefire delay ‘heartbreaking’ for Gaza’s children: UNICEF
Rosalia Bollen from the UN’s agency for children says it’s “heartbreaking” to see the ceasefire delayed.
“I saw children waving and cheering and dancing. But at the same time I could hear continued shooting, very heavy weapons,” Bollen told Al Jazeera, speaking from Gaza’s al-Mawasi area. “The ceasefire isn’t there yet and that’s absolutely heartbreaking for these children.”
Over the past couple of days, children in the Strip have been telling Bollen all the things “they would love to do the moment a ceasefire starts”.
“They want to go back home, see what’s left … They want to sleep in their own bed. They want to find the toys they’ve had to leave behind when the war started and so it’s a very odd moment to be in,” she said.
Bollen said there are 1,300 truckloads of supplies ready to be brought in once the ceasefire takes effect. But impediments remain such as destroyed roads and warehouses.
Food, water, warm shelter and hygiene supplies are most essential, Bollen said.
“But some of the aid that children in Gaza need is not aid that we can bring onto trucks. They’ve gone through things that no child should ever have to witness, and they are in dire need of psychosocial support and a return to normalcy.”
Palestinians celebrate despite a delay in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City
Hamas official says list of captives to be given ‘any moment’
A Hamas official says the list of captives to be released under the ceasefire deal will be handed over “any moment”, but that “complexities” in Gaza and Israeli bombing were causing delays.
The Doha-based official, who took part in the ceasefire negotiations, told AFP, at “any moment, the names of the three prisoners … will be handed over, but the complexities of the field situation and the continued bombing have delayed that”.
Israel had said the ceasefire had been delayed by Hamas’s failure to hand over the list.
Israel received names of captives to be released: Reports
Israeli media are reporting that the names of the captives have now been handed over to Israel.
The mechanism of this is that Hamas informs Qatar, the mediator, and then Qatar informs Israel. It looks like this has now been done.
What we understand is that these are three women who are not soldiers – possibly over the age of 50, or minors – so this should technically mean that the ceasefire is now officially on.
Usually, there is still some form of delay in terms of attacks, but there was a feeling that this was simply going to be a delay, that this wasn’t going to be a derailing of the ceasefire.
Israeli strikes kill 10 Palestinians since planned start of ceasefire
The total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since the planned start of the ceasefire has now risen to 10, the spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence has said.
Six people were killed in Gaza City, three in northern Gaza and one in Rafah, with more than 25 injured, a statement said.
Hamas names 3 Israeli captives to be freed
Hamas has released the names of the three Israeli captives to be freed on the first day of the implementation of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, it said in a post on Telegram. The move potentially clears the way for the ceasefire to begin after an hours-long delay.
Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing – the Qassam Brigades, said, “As part of the prisoner exchange deal we decided to release today: Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Shtanbar Khair, 31.”
Gaza’s death toll at 46,913
At least 46,913 Palestinians have been killed and 110,750 wounded since Israel launched its war on Gaza, the Health Ministry says. At least 25 people were killed and 14 injured over the past 24 hours, it added.
The majority of the dead are children, women, and elderly. The death toll is presumed to be far higher, with an estimated 10,000 bodies buried in the vast concrete debris throughout the Strip.
