Israel says it received new list of hostages to be released
The Israeli government said it received a new list of women and children hostages in the Gaza Strip to be released by Hamas on Thursday in exchange for a one-day extension of the truce.
The Israeli government said it received a new list of women and children hostages in the Gaza Strip to be released by Hamas on Thursday in exchange for a one-day extension of the truce.
Both Israel and Hamas confirmed on Thursday that the truce between them will persist, just before the scheduled expiration, although the specifics of any formal agreement remained uncertain.
Seventeen Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks in the Gaza Strip by Hamas will arrive back in the kingdom on Thursday.
Israel said Monday that 11 more hostages released in the Gaza Strip had arrived safely, hours after the announcement that a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will be extended by two days, opening the way for further releases.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on 21 November that a truce agreement with Israel was in sight, raising hopes that his militant group could soon release dozens of people taken hostage in the 7 October attacks.
The Red Cross said Monday that its president had travelled to Qatar to meet with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh “to advance humanitarian issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza”.
Israeli forces entered Gaza’s largest hospital Wednesday, targeting a Hamas command centre they say is located below thousands of ailing and sheltering civilians/AFP.
Five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli forces around the city of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
Hundreds of patients were trapped and thousands of people sought shelter around Gaza’s largest hospital on Monday, as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battled near the compound.
Flags flew at half-mast at United Nations compounds across Asia on Monday, as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict.