International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) today completed its first day of relief assistance hostages and detainees, during which he escorted and transported 24 kidnapped people from the Gaza Strip and 33 Palestinians heading to the West Bank, and stressed his readiness to continue this work tomorrow, Saturday.

“This operation shows the true impact of our role as neutral mediator between the parties to the conflict“That was the ICRC’s brief statement at the end of the liberation, on the first of four days of truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

24 hostages were transported by the Red Cross from Gaza into Egyptian territory through the Rafah border crossing, where they were handed over to Egyptian authorities.

On the other hand, 33 Palestinian prisoners left Ofer prison. to be taken to Ramallah, administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority.

Earlier, the century-old humanitarian organization said its teams had launched a “multi-day” operation to facilitate release and transportation hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian detainees heading to the West Bank.

Likewise, the operation will also include sending aid to Gazaincluding medicines for hospitals, the Geneva-based organization said.

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The ICRC insisted that did not participate in previous negotiations for these releases, although they occurred in the same week that the organization’s president, Mirjana Spoljarić, met in Qatar with Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

“Our greatest wish is that release all hostages and so that civilians can stop suffering from the pain that the conflict has brought,” Fabrizio Carboni, ICRC regional director for the Middle East, added in a statement. (EFE)