Israel began to allow thousands of Palestinians to return to vigorously destroyed north of Gaza’s belt for the first time since the first weeks 15-month war with Hamasin accordance with fragile truce.

The opening was postponed for two days because of the dispute between Hamas and Israel, who said that the militant group had changed the hostage command he had released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The mediators solved the dispute overnight.

Separated, Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Sunday opened fire to protesters Requesting their withdrawal in accordance with the trial agreement, killing at least 22 and injuring 124, said Lebanese health officials.

A few hours later, the White House said that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to leave South Lebanon by February 18, after Israel asked for more time to withdraw beyond the 60 -day deadline prescribed by the Agreement on the Inmination Agreement stopped Israel -hezbollah war in late November.

Israel said it should stay longer because the Lebanese army did not deploy in all areas of South Lebanon to ensure that Hezbollah does not re -establish its presence in the area. The Lebanese army announced that it could not be scheduled until the Israeli forces withdrew.

Palestinians who have taken refuge in camps with tents and schools facing schools have been eager to return to their homes for more than a year and knowing that they are probably damaged or destroyed. Many were afraid that Israel would make their exodus permanently and expressed similar concerns about the idea that President Trump floated to move a large number of Palestinians in Egypt and Jordan.

Ismail Abu Matter, a four -time father who waited three days before he crossed his family, described the anniversary scenes on the other hand, and people sing, pray and cry as they reunited with relatives.

“It’s the joy of a return,” said Abu Matter, whose family was among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were thrown out of what was now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounds his creation. “We thought we wouldn’t come back, like our ancestors.”

Hamas called the return “by victory for our people, and a statement of failure and defeat for the (Israeli) plans for occupation and transmission.”

The certificate is aimed at winding the most deadly and most decorative wars ever fought between Israel and Hamas and ensuring the release of dozens of hostages trapped in Attacks of militants on October 7, 2023.which launched a fight.

Israel ordered the evacuation of the north price in the war days of war and sealed it shortly after moving the ground troops. About a million people fled south in October 2023, while hundreds of thousands remained in the north, who had some of the most difficult struggles and the worst destruction of the war.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel would continue to conduct a truce and that anyone who violates or threatens to Israeli forces “to” submit a full expense “.

“We will not allow the return to reality on October 7,” he wrote on the X platform.

Israel delayed the opening of the crossing, what was supposed to happen over the weekend, saying that it would not allow Palestinians north until the female civil hostage, Arbel Yehoud, was released. He also accused Hamas of not providing information about whether the remaining hostages were released in the first phase alive or dead.

Hamas in turn accused Israel of violating the agreement without opening the transition.

Bay Katar, a key mediator with Hamas, announced early on Monday that an agreement was reached on the release of Yehoud along with two other hostages before Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that a hostage edition will be held on Thursday – which will include the female soldier Agam Berger. This edition will be next to the one already set for next Saturday, when three soils should be published.

Hamas also handed over a list of necessary information on hostages that will be published in the first phase of the truce.

Starting from 7am, Palestinians were allowed to cross on foot without inspection through the part of the so -called Netzarim corridor, a military zone that divided the territory south of the city of Gaza, which Israel cut at the beginning of the war. The control point for vehicles should later be opened with the inspection mechanism, whose details were not immediately known.

In the first phase of the tribute, which lasts until the beginning of March, Hamas will release a total of 33 hostages in exchange for the release of almost 2,000 Palestinians closed by Israel. The militants published seven hostages, Including four women’s soldiers early on SaturdayIn an instant trial, in exchange for more than 300 prisoners, including many maintenance of lifelong punishment for deadly attacks on the Israelis.

The second – and far heavier – the phase of the agreement has not yet been neglected. Hamas says he will not let the remaining 60 hostages unless Israel is over the war, while Netanyahu says he is still dedicated to the destruction of a militant group and the end of his almost 18-year rule over Gaza.

Hamas started the war when thousands of his fighters flew to southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the abductions of another 250 hostages are still inside Gaza, and Israel believes they are about a third dead .

Israeli air and ground war killed over 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. He doesn’t say how many dead were the fighters. Israel says he killed over 17,000 militants without giving evidence.

The Israeli bombing and land operations displaced about 90% of 2.3 million people, often repeatedly, and flattened the entire neighborhood.