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The Red Cross has received the 17 hostages released by Hamas today in what is the third exchange of captives for Palestinian prisoners in as many days, the Israeli Defence Forces has said.
Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the IDF, wrote on X: “According to the information provided by the Red Cross, the abductees, including 14 Israeli citizens and three foreign nationals, were handed over to them.”
It came as a statement from the terror group said they are taking serious efforts to increase the number of hostages released even after the four-day truce ends.
Israel has already said the pause in fighting will extend by a day for every ten hostages Hamas releases.
President Joe Biden had already called on Israel and leaders of Hamas to work towards a deal that would extend a negotiated truce in the bloody conflict that erupted last month after several hostages including a young American girl were released by the militant group.
17 hostages handed over to the Red Cross
The Israeli Defence Forces have said that the Red Cross have received the 17 hostages released today.
“According to the information provided by the Red Cross, the hostages, including 14 Israeli citizens and three foreign nationals, were handed over to them,” a statement from Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson, read.
‘It is real’ Mother posts heartwarming reunion with daughters released by Hamas
Maayan Zin has posted an emotional image of her hugging daughters, Ella and Dafna Elyakim, 15, after they were released by Hamas after 51 days.
On Oct. 7, they were visiting their father, Noam Elyakim, at Nahal Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border, where he lived with his partner, Dikla Arava, and her son, Tomer, 17.
She posted the image under the caption: “Finally reunited. It is real.”
Zin said she learned that her two daughters had been abducted when a relative sent her photos from a Telegram group appearing to show them sitting on mattresses in captivity.
Dafna and Ella were shown weeping and terrified. Their father, her ex-husband, was seen being taken across the border into Gaza, his leg bleeding heavily.
He is not on the list of those being released today.
Aunt of four-year-old American hostage released by Hamas thanks public for support
Elderly Hamas hostage rushed straight to hospital in critical condition
The Israeli army said one of the hostages was airlifted directly to hospital, and the director of Soroka Medical Centre said Elma Avraham, 84, was in a life-threatening condition as “a result of an extended period of time when an elderly woman was not taken care of as needed”.
The youngest hostage released was Abigail Edan, a four-year-old girl and dual Israeli-American citizen whose parents were killed in the Hamas attack that started the war on October 7.
“What she endured was unthinkable,” President Joe Biden said of the first American freed, adding he did not know Abigail’s condition but could confirm she was safely in Israel.
He did not have updates on other American hostages and said it was his goal to extend the ceasefire deal as long as possible.
In all, nine children aged 17 and younger were on the list, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Separately, Hamas said it had released one of the Russian hostages it was holding “in response to the efforts of Russian President Vladimir Putin” and as a show of appreciation for Moscow’s position on the war. Israeli army radio had reported that it was an Israeli-Russian dual national.
Elma Avraham
Three Palestinian students shot and wounded in Vermont in possible hate crime
The students were travelling to a family dinner when they were attacked, The Guardian reports.
The victims were identified as Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed, and Kinnan Abdalhamid, who are undergraduate students at Brown, Haverford, and Trinity, according to Husam Zomlot, the head of Palestine‘s mission to the UK.
Mother celebrates as her two daughters released by Hamas after 51 days
Maayan Zin was spending the interminable time without information on her missing daughters, Ella Elyakim and Dafna Elyakim, 15, spreading the word about them.
On Oct. 7, they were visiting their father, Noam Elyakim, at Nahal Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border, where he lived with his partner, Dikla Arava, and her son, Tomer, 17.
Video she viewed later appeared to show all five seated under duress, Dafna weeping and Noam bleeding from his leg, while militants make demands. Then she saw photos of the girls seated on mattresses in pajamas that weren’t their own. Two fingers on Ella’s hand appeared bandaged.
Yesterday she posted: “I hope this will be the last Shabbat I spend without Dafna and Ela. It’s been seven in a row.”
Today they have been freed.
Syrian airport out of action after being struck by Israeli missiles
An Israeli airstrike Sunday hit the international airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus and put it out of commission, Syrian state media said.Israel has struck Syria’s Damascus and Aleppo international airports several times since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza on October 7.
Israel has also struck parts of western Syria after rocket fire landed on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.SANA, citing an unnamed military official, said Israel fired missiles from the direction of the Golan Heights, striking Damascus International Airport and other areas in the Damascus countryside causing material damage.
There was no mention of casualties.Britain-based opposition war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the strikes came just hours after the airport resumed flights after a monthlong hiatus following a previous Israeli strike.
Hamas want to extend truce after four day period
A statement from the terror group Hamas said they are taking serious efforts to increase the number of hostages released even after the four-day truce ends.
Israel has already said the pause in fighting will extend by a day for every ten hostages Hamas releases.
A van carrying hostages held in Gaza arrives in Israeli territory
Names of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel - mostly aged 17 and from Jerusalem
Sultan Samer Mahmoud Sarhan,19 years old
Qassam Iyad Ahmed Aawar 18 years old
Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud Mahmoud A’war, 17,
Nasrallah Iyad Amjad Aouar, 17
Khalil Ahmed Khalil A’war, 18,
Amin Muhammad Amin Abbasi, 17
Mustafa Muhammad Ibrahim Abbasi, 17
Ahmed Qadri Mahmoud Shiha, 18
Samir Samer Samir Bakhtan, 16
Muhammad Aboudah Hassan Ghaith, 15
Musa Humaidan Fadl Mohtasib, 15
Ayham Adnan Subhi, poet, 17
Rayan Adnan Hassan Ateeq,16
Malek Murad Khaled Bouja, 16
Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Abdul Jabbar, 17
Nashat Bassem Talib Dawabsha, 17
Yousef Fawaz Fayez Burgan, 17
Nour al-Din Ziyad Rashid Qawasmi, 17
Ghannam Musa Ghannam Abu Ghannam, 17
Hassan Yasser Hassan Yasser, 17
Abdul Rahman Amer Fakhri Al-Zaghal, house arrest, 14 years old
Mahmoud Nimr Eid Atta
Omar Imad Hassan Atshan
Obada Hossam Ahmed Khalil, 17
Khalil Muhammad Badr Zama’ra
Hassan Walid Jamal Sabarna
Beit Ummar, 17
Zaid Naim Shehdeh Arar, 17
Ammar Mahmoud Youssef Thawabta, 16
Yazan Amer Ali
Sabah Musa Muhannad, 17
Mawad Omar Abdullah Al-Hajj, 16
Osama Nayef Osama Marmash, 16
Ibrahim Muayyad Ibrahim Zafer
Omar Shaker Suhail Mahajna
Adnan Hazem Adnan Eid / Tulkarm,
Ahmed Attia Ahmed Al-Adini, 16
Majd Raed Masoud Freihat, 16
Wahid Ismail Jamil Sobeih, 17
Alaa Fathi Abdel Hadi Abu Senima
Palestinian foreign ministry condemns Vermont shooting it says injured three students
The Palestinian foreign ministry on Sunday condemned a shooting in the U.S. state of Vermont in which it said three Palestinian students had been injured.
The ministry said in a statement that Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, who were speaking Arabic and wearing the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh, had sustained “severe and moderate injuries” during the shooting.
The foreign ministry called on U.S. authorities to quickly hold those responsible for the shooting to account.
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