Hamas said that they are waiting to receive the full list of prisoners to be released in exchange for the three hostages being freed today (Sunday).
Hamas announced that Israel is set to provide the terrorist organization with the list of 90 male and female terrorists to be released in exchange for the three hostages being freed today, according to Israel Hayom.
According to Maariv, Hamas insisted on the following exchange rate for hostages: For each living female hostage or children: 30 prisoners under age 19 or female prisoners, for each hostage over age 50: 30 militants over age 50 or sick ones, for sick or wounded hostages: 110 prisoners, for each female soldier: 50 prisoners, for Mengistu and al-Sayed: 30 prisoners each, in addition to 47 militants who were released in the Shalit deal and were re-arrested.
Meanwhile, Egyptian sources report that 200 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, including fuel trucks. Most of the trucks entered the Strip via the Kerem Shalom border crossing from Israel and the rest entered via the Rafah crossing, according to Kann and Israel Hayom.
According to the hostage deal text as published by multiple outlets, Israel is committed to allowing in 600 trucks a day into the Gaza Strip as part of the condition for the release of the 34 hostages during the first phase of the deal.
Hawkish parties both inside and outside the coalition, including Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism party, Itamar Ben Gvir's Otzmah Yehudit party, and Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party, have been fiercely critical of the amount of aid Israel has allowed in, under heavy international and especially American pressure.
They argue that the amount of aid was not only far beyond the Gazan population's actual needs, but that it was allowed to be stolen by Hamas terrorists, who then resold it to the populace, keeping the terrorist group and its army financially afloat, in contradiction of the government's stated aim of "collapsing" Hamas militarily and as a governing party.
Watch aid trucks enter here:
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