The Daily Populous Sunday January 19th, 2025 night edition
Authored by m.jpost.com and submitted by Cr2O3-2H2O

Hamas is reportedly set to hand over the list of hostages to be released on Sunday within the next few hours, sources told Al Arabiya/Al Hadath on Saturday night.

The sources added that Hamas told the mediators that it would hand over the names of the hostages as soon as they had been transferred to a safe place. It is expected that three female soldiers will be released.

A Hamas source told Ynet that the group is delaying the release of the names because of technical reasons. He said that "communication between [Hamas] operatives is done physically by messengers, and it takes them time to agree on the names and location of the hostages, while IDF jets are still overhead."

He added, "The list will only be released after approval from Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar."

This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Saturday evening that, at the time of his words, Israel has not yet received the list of the hostages to be released by Hamas on Sunday.

Netanyahu said that Israel "will not move forward with the outline [of the deal] until we receive the list of hostages to be released, as agreed upon. Orange balloons are brought to the hostage demonstration to mark the second birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage, and to urge the government not to abandon the hostage deal on January 18, 2025. (credit: Paulina Patimer)

"Israel will not tolerate violations of the agreement," he continued. "The sole responsibility lies with Hamas."

In a statement on Saturday, Hamas revealed that it would publish lists of names the day before each exchange day.

An Israeli source told KAN that they knew "Hamas would be manipulative" in not providing who would be released on Sunday.

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A source familiar with the details of the negotiations said that the next 24 hours are critical for the beginning of the implementation of the deal and that Israel feared that Hamas would try to violate it. A spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry said that "there has been no violation of the agreement."

ForsakenRacism on January 18th, 2025 at 18:04 UTC »

They don’t know how to say that they don’t have that many hostages left

BringbackDreamBars on January 18th, 2025 at 16:49 UTC »

I'm aware this is common for Hamas, especially at exchanges.

Hoping this is just the same rather than a last minute psy op or that Hamas leadership cant find them.

Cr2O3-2H2O on January 18th, 2025 at 16:35 UTC »

18h30 Israel & Gaza time. The ceasefire agreement stipulates hostage identities and their condition will be given 24h ahead of releae

Edited to add: the time due was 16h00

Edited to update: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-said-to-blame-technical-reasons-for-delay-in-providing-names-of-hostages/