Hamas releases 24 hostages held in Gaza as part of truce deal
Palestinians walk through destruction in Gaza City on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, as the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect
HAMAS released 24 of the hostages it has held in Gaza yesterday, in the first stage of a swap for Palestinians jailed in Israel that forms part of a four-day truce deal, the Red Cross said.
The hostages included 13 Israelis, 10 Thai citizens and one person from the Philippines, who had been captured during Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel, according to Qatar, which mediated the deal.
Footage from the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border showed a line of ambulances emerging from Gaza.
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