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A nine year-old girl who was feared dead by her family after the Hamas attacks on 7 October is among 17 hostages released tonight.
Irish-Israeli Emily Hand has been freed after weeks being held captive in Gaza, the Irish foreign affairs Minister Micheal Martin confirmed.
The Israeli government said six adult women and seven children and teenagers had been released from Hamas in Gaza in a hostage deal on Saturday, after spending 50 days in captivity. Four Thai nationals were also freed on Saturday evening.
A Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations, involving Egypt and Qatar, said Hamas would continue with the four-day truce agreed with Israel, the first break in fighting in seven weeks of war.
It is the second release of hostages since the ceasefire began. On Friday, 24 were released from Gaza and transported through the Rafah crossing into Egypt after seven weeks in captivity.
It comes as at least eight trucks carrying fuel and cooking gas were allowed into Gaza this morning. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported this morning that 196 trucks crossed into the Gaza Strip through yesterday.
First Israeli hostage rushed to hospital upon release from Gaza is in moderate condition, says doctor
The first Israeli hostage to be rushed into hospital for surgery as opposed to standard checks is expected to make a full recovery, her doctor has said.
Maya Regev, 21, was freed from Gaza last night after being taken during the Supernova music festival on 7 October.
She was the only one of 13 Israeli and four Thai hostages released that was subsequently rushed to Soroka Medical Center, in Beer Sheba, south of the West Bank. The other proceeded to hospitals in the centre of Israel for routine check-ups.
The director of the Soroka Medical Center, Dr. Shlomi Kodesh, has said this morning that she is in moderate condition and should not suffer any serious injury.
It is unclear why she needed surgery.
Maya’s brother, 18-year-old Itay, is still being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Maya Regev, 21, was released last night but Itay Regev, 18, remains in Gaza
Israel claim five of those killed in West Bank overnight were ‘terrorists’
The Israeli forces have claimed that “five terrorists were eliminated” during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank last night.
Earlier, we reported that the Palestinian health ministry had claimed that Israeli forces had stormed Jenin “from several directions, firing bullets and surrounding government hospitals and the headquarters of the (humanitarian) Red Crescent Society”.
Israel, at the time, said it was checking the reports.
An update this morning said: “In the operation commanded by the 646th Reserve Brigade, five terrorists were eliminated, 21 wanted persons were arrested, a cargo laboratory was destroyed and an aircraft attacked from the air by an armed terrorist squad that endangered the IDF forces.”
With antisemitism rising as the Israel-Hamas war rages, Europe's Jews worry
As he sits in Geneva, Michel Dreifuss does not feel all that far away from the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s subsequent bombardment of Gaza. The ripples are rolling through Europe and upending assumptions both global and intimate — including those about his personal safety as a Jew.
“Yesterday I bought a tear-gas spray canister at a military-equipment surplus store,” the 64-year-old retired tech sector worker said recently at a rally to mark a month since the Hamas killings. The choice, he says, is a “precaution,” driven by a surge of antisemitism in Europe.
Last month’s slayings of about 1,200 people in Israel by armed Palestinian militants represented the biggest killing of Jews since the Holocaust. The fallout from it, and from Israel’s intense military response that health officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza say has killed at least 13,300 Palestinians, has extended to Europe. In doing so, it has shaken a continent all too familiar with deadly anti-Jewish hatred for centuries.
Fragile cease-fire in Gaza is back on track after hourslong delay in 2nd hostage-for-prisoner swap
The tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to be back on track early Sunday after the release of a second group of militant-held hostages and Palestinians from Israeli prisons, but the swap followed an hourslong delay that underscored the truce’s fragility.
The exchange was delayed Saturday evening after Hamas accused Israel of violating the agreement, which has brought the first significant pause in seven weeks of war marked by the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian violence in decades, vast destruction and displacement across the Gaza Strip, and a hostage crisis that has shaken Israel.
The deal seemed at risk of unraveling until Qatar and Egypt, which mediate with Hamas, announced late Saturday that the obstacles to the exchange had been overcome. The militants released 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners.
Six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank - Palestinian ministry
Six Palestinians, including one minor, were shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank late Saturday and early Sunday, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Five of the deaths occurred in the city of Jenin and the sixth was in Yatma, a village near Nablus city. Six others were injured during the shooting in Jenin, the ministry said.
The Israeli military spokesperson’s office said it was checking the reports.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israeli forces stormed Jenin “from several directions, firing bullets and surrounding government hospitals and the headquarters of the Red Crescent Society”.
A Palestinian prisoner (C) is welcomed in Ramallah, West Bank, by relatives after detainees were released from Israeli jails
Joy as Palestinian prisoners return home
Shortly after midnight, Israel began releasing 39 Palestinian prisoners to east Jerusalem and the West Bank as part of the swap that ultimately went through after international mediation efforts.
Released Palestinian woman Shurouq Duwiyat arrived at her home in Jerusalem where joyous family members hugged and kissed her.
“We send a message to our people in Gaza that we stand by your side and support you,” Duwiyat told reporters inside her home.
Also in Jerusalem, Israeli troops evicted journalists who gathered outside the home of Israa Jaabis, who had been imprisoned since 2015 after being convicted of carrying out separate attacks on Israelis. Jaabis suffered severe burns on her face and hands during a bombing attack that also wounded an Israeli police officer.
Hundreds of Palestinians waited in the West Bank town of Beitunia for the arrival of additional prisoners.
The Israeli hostages released Saturday by Hamas included seven children and six women, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced.
Most of the released hostages were from Kibbutz Be’eri, a community Hamas militants ravaged during their Oct. 7 cross-border attack, a spokesperson for the kibbutz said. The children ranged in age from 3 to 16, and the women ranged from 18 to 67.
Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank, says Palestinian health ministry
Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in two separate incidents in the West Bank on Sunday, said the Palestinian health ministry.
The incidents occurred in Nablus and Jenin regions early morning today.
In total, six Palestinians are reported to have been killed since last night, marking continued raids by Israel in the occupied West Bank territory.
The Israeli army has been raiding cities and towns in the West Bank since 7 October and has arrested several Palestinians.
At least 229 Palestinians, including 52 children have been killed by Israeli forces, and over 3,000 people arrested.
Father of 9-year-old Israeli-Irish girl released by Hamas says he will throw her 'the best birthday party she never had'
Emily Hand, nine, was among the hostages released by Hamas on yesterday.
Her father Thomas, originally from Dun Laoghaire in Dublin, has spoken about how he is looking forward to giving her a huge hug.
He told the Daily Mirror that Emily would also be greeted by her beloved dog Johnsie and cuddly toys. They are also planning to give the young girl – who spent her ninth birthday in captivity – "the best birthday party she never had".
Emily's family in Ireland held a birthday party for her at St Stephen's Green in the Irish capital as they campaigned for her release.
Mr Hand met Irish president Michael D Higgins, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Micheal Martin to press politicians to do all they can to press for his daughter's release.
"We have been waiting for far too long for this moment. Every day has been a long and painful living nightmare... my Emily is coming home at last, broken but in one piece," he said.
"She turned nine on November 17, more than a month after she was taken from me.
"I am sure she had no idea it was her birthday – she would have lost track of time and dates there. I still have the party balloons – this one is floating in my hotel room, but it's lost a lot of air, it's going flat. We'll get hundreds and hundreds now and make a great party."
This photo released by Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters shows Noga Weiss, 18 years old.
Noga was one of the 13 Israeli and four hostages Hamas released late Saturday, in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal, the Israeli military said, after the militant group initially delayed the exchange for several hours and claimed that Israel had violated the terms of a truce deal.
Thailand nationals released by Hamas in good health
Prime minister Srettha Thavisin said Thai nationals who are being released by Hamas after being taken as hostages were in good health and eager to contact their families.
"Everybody is safe, on the whole in good mental health and are able to speak normally," he posted on X
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