{"id":52930,"date":"2025-02-11T06:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-orders-military-readiness-as-hamas-suspends-hostage-release\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:00:58","slug":"israel-orders-military-readiness-as-hamas-suspends-hostage-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-orders-military-readiness-as-hamas-suspends-hostage-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel orders military readiness as Hamas suspends hostage release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz condemned the move as a &#8220;complete violation&#8221; of the deal and ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to be fully prepared for any developments in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding security consultations to assess the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas&#8217; military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, stated that Israel had failed to uphold its commitments, including allowing displaced people to return to northern Gaza and ensuring adequate humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n<p>Until Israel complies and retroactively corrects its actions, the handover of hostages will be delayed, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Hostages, Missing Persons, and Returnees Directorate insisted on the full implementation of the agreement, warning against any breaches.<\/p>\n<p>The developments follow indirect negotiations in Qatar over the next phase of the ceasefire, which began on January 19. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, 21 hostages have been released in exchange for Palestinian detainees, with further exchanges expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-81468\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg\" alt=\"Relatives of a released hostage hug each other when a helicopter carrying the hostage arrives at a medical center in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Feb. 8, 2025. Israel and Hamas on Saturday completed the fifth prisoner-for-hostage swap under the first phase of the ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has placed its military on high alert after Hamas announced the postponement of a scheduled hostage release, citing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000081467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081467,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/202502119bedbab1aef942039add10904c613d3d_ccrbeee007010_20250211_cbmfn0a001.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52930"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52930"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}