Xinhua News Agency, Johannesburg, October 4 (Reporter Jiang Guopeng, Bai Ge) On the 4th, the South African government welcomed the promise of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to release all Israeli detainees, and urged Israel to take "corresponding measures", including the release of Palestinian political prisoners and members of the international humanitarian aid fleet detained by Israel.

South Africa¡¯s Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation said in a statement that taking ¡°response measures¡± would help build trust and relieve tensions and lay the foundation for peace.

The statement said that South Africa insists that ¡°a lasting peace cannot be built on the basis of suppressing the people¡¯s fundamental human rights,¡± urging all parties to go beyond the cycle of confrontation and address the roots of the conflict, which requires an immediate and permanent ceasefire (in the Gaza Strip) and the initiation of the final political process to the inalienable self-determination and the right of the Palestinian people to establish a state.

Hamas announced on the 3rd that it agreed to release all Israeli detainees and bodies under the framework of the "20-point plan" proposed by US President Trump, and expressed its willingness to immediately negotiate through the mediator to discuss implementation details. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on the evening of the 4th, saying that the Israeli delegation would travel to Cairo, the capital of Egypt, to finalize the "technical details" after releasing the people.