Shosh Bedrosian, a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Workplace, mentioned in a briefing Sunday that Israel is “hours away from the discharge of all of our hostages.”
The briefing gave a number of different particulars about what is anticipated over the approaching hours.
“We predict all 20 of our residing hostages to be launched collectively at one time to the Crimson Cross and transported amongst six to eight autos with none sick shows by Hamas,” Bedrosian mentioned. “Hostages might be pushed to forces inside Israel-controlled elements of Gaza after which transferred to the Reim base in Southern Israel, the place they are going to then reunite with their households.”
She added that the residing hostages could be despatched to 3 hospitals in Israel.
On the handover of the stays of the deceased hostages, Bedrosian mentioned that “as soon as Crimson Cross arms over [the] deceased hostage stays to Israeli forces in Israeli-controlled territories inside Gaza, they are going to maintain a brief ceremony within the Gaza Strip. Throughout that handover, the coffins might be draped with Israeli flags and conventional Jewish memorial prayers for the useless might be mentioned.”
She mentioned the stays would then be delivered to a forensic institute inside Israel for identification, after which, “in coordination with the Jewish legislation and naturally custom, their households might be notified in an acceptable timeframe to bury their family members in a well timed style.”
Some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners (250 serving life sentences and about 1700 who’ve been detained since Oct. 7, 2023), she mentioned, might be launched as soon as Israel has affirmation that each one hostages have crossed the border into Israel.
“And as soon as we now have that affirmation, we predict that the prisoners will already be on the buses. However as soon as the affirmation comes by, they’ve crossed into Israeli territory, these buses will begin and they’re going to start their journey,” Bedrosian mentioned.
