Hamas releases 4 female hostages as part of Israel ceasefire deal

The violent radical Hamas released 4 further hostages from Gaza connected Saturday aft a ceasefire woody with Israel took effect astir a week ago.

Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag — each of whom are members of the Israeli Defense Forces —were freed connected Saturday successful the 2nd circular of hostage releases.

In exchange, Israel was expected to escaped 200 Palestinian prisoners oregon detainees, including 120 militants serving beingness sentences aft being convicted of deadly attacks.

The archetypal circular of hostage releases connected Sunday freed Romi Gonen, Emily Demari, and Doron Steinbrecher.

Video from Palestine Square successful Gaza shows the 4 recently released women hostages being taken from the cars. They are live and walking, wearing uniforms.

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"The Red Cross has communicated that 4 Israeli hostages were transferred to them and are connected their mode toward IDF and ISA forces successful the Gaza Strip," the IDF and Israeli Securities Authority said successful a associated statement.

The 4 pistillate soldiers were believed to person been, astatine slightest astatine 1 time, held each together.

Under the ceasefire deal, a full of 33 hostages are to beryllium acceptable escaped implicit the people of six weeks, including those already released, successful speech for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

Hamas agreed to merchandise 3 pistillate hostages connected the archetypal time of the deal, 4 connected the seventh time and the remaining 26 implicit the adjacent 5 weeks.

This is the 2nd cease-fire achieved during the warfare that began much than a twelvemonth ago.

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The 15-month-long war successful Gaza started erstwhile Hamas launched a astonishment onslaught against Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, prompting subject retaliation from Israeli forces. Nearly 100 hostages stay captive successful Gaza.

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