The Israel Prison Service said early on Friday it had released 30 Palestinians from Israeli jails as part of the latest exchange for hostages under the truce deal with Hamas.
The prison service said the Palestinians were released from prisons in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem under the seventh swap, Reuters reported.
Israel knew of Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago, according to a report in the New York Times.
The report says a blueprint reviewed by the Times laid out the attack in detail, but that Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignoring specific warnings.
The NYT report says:
Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.
The translated document, which was reviewed by The New York Times, did not set a date for the attack, but described a methodical assault designed to overwhelm the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, take over Israeli cities and storm key military bases, including a division headquarters.
Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision.
… Officials privately concede that, had the military taken these warnings seriously and redirected significant reinforcements to the south, where Hamas attacked, Israel could have blunted the attacks or possibly even prevented them.
… The Israeli military and the Israeli Security Agency, which is in charge of counterterrorism in Gaza, declined to comment.
These images are coming in over the news wires of Palestinian prisoners being welcomed in the occupied West Bank early on Friday after their release by Israel in the latest exchange.
On the number of hostages released by Hamas in the latest exchange, Agence France-Presse is reporting how the truce deal stipulates that a minimum of 10 Israeli captives should be released alive each day.
The militant group released just eight Israelis on Thursday.
But a source close to Hamas told AFP that two Russian-Israeli women freed on Wednesday in addition to 10 others made up for only eight being released on Thursday.
Mediator Qatar appeared to back the calculation.
In exchange under the extended truce deal – due to expire within hours – Israeli prison authorities said 30 Palestinians prisoners were freed overnight on Thursday.
Since the agreement came into force on 24 November, 110 hostages have been released, including 80 Israelis.
The majority of the 30 non-Israeli hostages freed were from Thailand, released under a separate agreement.
Israel has freed 240 Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
Al Jazeera is reporting that a bus carrying newly released Palestinian detainees has been hit with tear gas fired by Israeli forces, according to a witness.
The network’s report says Issam Rimawi, a Palestinian photojournalist, witnessed and recorded the incident and said Israeli forces were deployed outside Ofer prison in the West Bank before the release of the Palestinian prisoners.
The report quotes Rimawi as telling Al Jazeera in Ramallah:
They were firing tear gas just as the bus carrying the prisoners was leaving
The prisoners were suffocating, and the driver had to stop the bus until the Red Cross crew came to help them.
The medical team had to go into the bus, and we have documented this with our own camera.
The Israeli authorities are doing this because they don’t want people to celebrate the release of the prisoners.
The Al Jazeera Media Network is funded by the Qatari royal family and says it has editorial independence.
The Israel Prison Service said early on Friday it had released 30 Palestinians from Israeli jails as part of the latest exchange for hostages under Israel’s truce agreement with Hamas.
Here are some of the images coming in of the latest release of six hostages by Hamas – in addition to two freed earlier on Thursday – under the exchange agreement with Israel.
Here’s more around the Agence France-Presse report that Hamas has said it is willing to further extend the truce pausing fighting with Israel.
Israel had yet to respond, the news agency reports.
The current truce is due to expire early on Friday after a seven-day pause. US secretary of state Antony Blinken urged an extension after meeting with leaders in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
“Clearly, we want to see this process continue to move forward,” he told reporters in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
We want an eighth day and beyond.
Blinken also said Israel “must put in place humanitarian civilian protection plans that minimise further casualties of innocent Palestinians, including by clearly and precisely designating areas and places in southern and central Gaza, where they can be safe and out of the line of fire”.
International pressure has risen for a lasting halt to the war. The White House said it was “working on it literally by the hour” to try to extend the temporary ceasefire.
Amid the latest release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to Hamas, who asked not to be named because they were not authorised to speak to the media, told AFP it was “willing to extend the truce”.
The source added:
The mediators are currently making strong, intense and continuous efforts for an additional day in the truce and then working to extend it again for other days.
The Israel Prison Service said early on Friday it had released 30 Palestinians from Israeli jails as part of the latest exchange for hostages under the truce deal with Hamas.
The prison service said the Palestinians were released from prisons in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem under the seventh swap, Reuters reported.
It’s 1am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
Israel’s military confirmed on Thursday that a truce with Hamas would continue, allowing further hostage and prisoner releases and the possibility of more a durable pause in hostilities. There were frantic diplomatic efforts through the night to prolong the six-day halt to fighting in Gaza, which had been due to end at 7am local time (5am GMT) on Thursday. Both sides have stressed they have the will and capabilities to continue the conflict.
Talks are continuing about extending the pause, which is due to end early Friday. Hamas is willing to further extend the truce, a source close to Hamas has said. The White House has said it is “working on it literally by the hour” to try to extend the temporary ceasefire.
Eight Israeli hostages held in Gaza were released on Thursday. Hamas freed six of the hostages hours after releasing two Israeli women. All were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza and were being brought to Israel to be taken to hospitals and be reunited with their families, the Israeli military said. Among them is Mia Schem,a French-Israeli woman who was abducted from the Supernova music festival in Israel and shown in the first Hamas video of a hostage speaking from captivity.
Under the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas – which was extended on Thursday for another day – Hamas must release 10 Israeli hostages each day in exchange for the release of 30 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The Qatari foreign ministry saidtoday’s overall tally has been reached, because two Russian-Israeli dual-nationals released on Wednesday have been included in Thursday’s count. The prominent Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was among 30 prisoners freed by Israel early on Thursday. Eight Palestinian women and 22 children are slated for release later today.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has stepped up calls for Israel to comply with international law and spare civilians as it wages its war against Hamas in Gaza. On his third trip to the Middle East since 7 October, Blinken said the US remains committed to supporting Israel’s right to self defence, but that Israel must protect civilians if it starts major military operations in southern Gaza.
Three people were killed and 13 injured after two brothers from East Jerusalem shot at people waiting at a bus stop on a main road towards the western edge of the city in the rush hour, local police and medics reported. Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack.
An Israeli military assault into the south of Gaza may lead to 1 million refugees, the head of the UN’s Palestine relief agency UNRWA has warned. After a second overnight visit to Gaza, Philippe Lazzarini urged Israel to think through the consequences of an offensive in the south if the temporary truce in the fighting is not extended.
Seventeen Thai hostages freed by Hamas over recent days have landed back in Bangkok, where relatives had gathered at the airport to welcome them home. The latest releases bring the total number of Thai nationals freed to 23, with nine still being held.
Among the Israeli hostages who were released today include two children and six women, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that eight people who were being held hostage in Gaza have been released.
Hamas is willing to further extend a truce to pause fighting with Israel, a source close to Hamas has told Agence France-Presse.
The source told the news agency:
The mediators are currently making strong, intense and continuous efforts for an additional day in the truce and then working to extend it again for other days.
Here’s a clip from Antony Blinken’s press conference earlier, held in Tel Aviv after meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials.
The US secretary of state said the immediate focus of his visit was to try to extend the pause in fighting in Gaza and enable more hostages to be freed.
The US also urged Benjamin Netanyahu to protect civilians in Gaza. Blinken said:
Israel has one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world, it is capable of neutralising the threat while minimising harm to innocent men, women and children.
Two siblings, Aisha Ziyadne, 17, and Bilal Ziyadne, 18, are among the Israeli hostages who have been released tonight.
The pair were abducted from the kibbutz Holit together with their older brother, Hamza, and their father, Yousef.
Since the day of the assault, the extended Ziyadne family has been holding a permanent vigil outside the house of Yousef, the Times of Israel reported.
Ilana Gritzewsky, one of the two Mexican hostages held in Gaza, has been released, Mexico’s foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, has confirmed.
In a social media post, Bárcena thanked the Qatari government for its “invaluable mediation”, adding that Mexico continues to work for the release of its other citizen, Orion Hernandez.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that eight people who were being held hostage in Gaza have been released.
An ICRC statement reads:
We’re glad to inform that 8 people who were being held hostage in Gaza have just been released, with facilitation from the ICRC.
Our teams have transferred them and handed them over to the Israeli authorities.
This is possible thanks to our neutral intermediary role.
The six Israeli hostages who are being released tonight by Hamas from captivity in Gaza have been named.
They are:
Aisha Ziyadne, 17
Bilal Ziyadne, 18
Nili Margalit, 40
Shani Goren, 29
Sapir Cohen, 29
Ilana Gritzewsky, 30
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari, said 30 Palestinians will be released on Thursday in exchange for the release of 10 hostages in Gaza.
In a social media post, he said two Russian citizens released on Wednesday were counted on today’s list.
It comes as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said six Israeli hostages are currently on their way back to Israel territory. Two Israeli hostages have been released earlier today.
Earlier today, an Israeli official reiterated Israel’s position that it would agree to an extra day of truce for the release of each group of 10 hostages. In exchange, three times the number of Palestinian prisoners would be released each time.
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