The four-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, entered into force on Friday morning, under which the Islamist terrorist organization will release about 50 Israeli hostages.

The two girls, Dafna and Ela, who also have Hungarian citizenship, are not among the 13 hostages that Hamas will release on Friday, said Majan Zin, the girls' mother, who also announced in her post on X that she is having a hard time living in the current situation situation, but is happy about the union of other families.

Hamas has given Israel the list of hostages it will hand over to the Red Cross on Friday, and the Israeli government has already contacted the affected families.

In the framework of the agreement brokered by the governments of Qatar and Egypt and the United States, in exchange for the hostages, Israel will hand over 150 Palestinians imprisoned in prisons to Hamas.

The agreement signed on Wednesday also allows for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged zone. A quarter of an hour after the ceasefire came into effect, there were air raid alarms in several Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip.

The guns fell silent at 7:00 a.m. local time, and it is expected that at 4:00 p.m. Hamas will hand over the first group of hostages, thirteen children and women, in exchange for three times as many Palestinian women and prisoners under the age of 19 detained for security reasons.

According to Palestinian reports, all military air assets have been withdrawn from the southern part of the Gaza Strip. According to the agreement, Israel cannot fly over the southern part of the Gaza Strip at all, and cannot fly over the northern part for six hours a day.

"The war is not over yet. The attacks were only temporarily suspended for humanitarian reasons. The northern part of the Gaza Strip is a dangerous war zone where it is forbidden to move. For their safety, people should stay in the humanitarian zone in the southern part of the Gaza Strip," Israeli army spokesman Avihay Edri said in a video in Arabic.

Before the ceasefire came into force, there was an air raid warning in the Nir Oz kibbutz next to the zone, and earlier, at 5:30 am local time, in the Nir Am kibbutz due to enemy rockets, while the Israeli army attacked the entire area of ​​the Gaza Strip before the ceasefire came into force, and among other things, it was blown up the terror tunnel under the es-Sifá hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's adviser on foreign media, Mark Regev, told the American news channel CNN that the ceasefire represents a "calculated risk" and that it is not certain that it will be fully respected.

"We put military pressure on Hamas, we caused damage to its operations and its commanders. We are destroying the senior commanders of the military wing and they are under pressure. They want to buy time," he said of the ceasefire.

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Cover image: The mother requests the release of her daughters, who also have Hungarian citizenship
Source: X/Maayan Zin