HAMAS HANDS OVER ISRAELI HOSTAGE – TO Red Cross Representatives In Gaza
Crowds gathered as Israeli hostage Agam Berger walked onto a podium in Jabalia in northern Gaza on Thursday (January 30) during her release.
Palestinians watched as The International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) representatives signed release documents alongside Hamas members, before Berger was handed over.
Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal.
Gadi Moses, 80, and Arbel Yahud, 29, both abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct 7. 2023, hugged one another in the presence of masked gunmen in black uniforms at another exchange site, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, a video released by Hamas ally Islamic Jihad showed.
More than 250 hostages were abducted in the Hamas attack in Israel.
Around half were released the following month during the only previous truce, and others have been recovered dead or alive during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and turned the tiny coastal enclave into a wasteland of rubble.
Israel still lists 90 captives in Gaza, with around 30 declared dead in absentia.
