Three Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals held by Hamas in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 have been released. Agam Berger, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier, was reunited with her family at a military base in southern Israel after being handed over by armed Palestinian fighters to the Red Cross in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on Thursday.

In exchange, Israel was expected to free 110 Palestinian prisoners. But the prime minister’s office said their release was being delayed because of chaos around Thursday’s hostage handover in Gaza.

The Red Cross said on Saturday it had completed the second phase of release operations as part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, transferring four Israeli hostages from the enclave and facilitating the release of detainees from Israeli centres.

The four Israelis smiled broadly as they waved and gave the thumbs-up from a stage in Gaza City’s Palestine Square ... they were led off to waiting Red Cross vehicles. They were likely acting ...

A Red Cross team has arrived at a second hostage handover site in Gaza. Earlier Thursday, Hamas-led militants freed the first of eight hostages in the latest release since a

Israeli and Palestinian supporters in Texas welcome the tenuous halt to the war sparked by a 2023 attack with cautious optimism.

Israel says an updated list from Hamas "matches Israeli intelligence" - meaning 18 hostages are still to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire.

Egypt and Jordan have rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians, after US President Donald Trump suggested a plan to “clean out” the Gaza Strip and move its population.

Ceasefire reached fifteen months after Israel vowed to wipe Hamas ‘off the face of the earth’ following 7 October attack

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Red Cross team arrives at second hostage handover site in Gaza.