Calls Hostage Release Continued According To Agreement, Israeli PM Ensures Efforts To Eliminate Hamas Continues

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

JAKARTA - The Israeli prime minister has ensured efforts to eliminate the Hamas militant group and the attacks on its territory will not repeat itself, even though the process of releasing hostages and detainees in a ceasefire agreement on the other hand continues.

He conveyed this to the press on the sidelines of the summit of a cabinet meeting to approve a very controversial wartime budget.

"Regarding the hostages, we are continuing the plan that has been agreed upon, and we are also continuing the main objectives that we have stated, to ensure the release of the hostages, to eliminate Hamas and to ensure this threat will not be repeated by Gaza," Prime Minister Netanyahu said. November 28.

However, PM Netanyahu did not comment on Qatar's announcements, the United States and Hamas, regarding the approval to extend the ceasefire.

As previously reported, the militant groups Hamas and Israel reached a hiatus to extend the ceasefire between the two sides, when the release of hostages and detainees on both sides was resumed.

Yesterday, the militant group Hamas released 11 hostages, in exchange for the release of 33 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

In a tweet on X a spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry Majed al-Ansari said both Hamas and Israel agreed to extend the ceasefire for the next two days.

"An agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian hiatus for two additional days in the Gaza Strip," said al-Ansari.

Hamas said it had approved a two-day extension. Meanwhile, there has been no immediate comment from Israel, but a White House official confirmed that the deal had been reached.

Since the agreement began on Friday, Hamas has released 69 hostages. Meanwhile, with the immediate release, the number of detainees released will be 150 people.