Large crowds surrounded a vehicle carrying three hostages who were handed over by Hamas forces to the Red Cross on Jan. 19.

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The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, handed over three Israeli female prisoners to the Red Cross in the heart of Gaza City.

leaving the Palestine Red Crescent Society teams in Gaza delivering lifesaving aid with much reduced resources. Beatrice Butsana-Sita, chief executive British Red Cross, says: "Before the conflict around 500 trucks were arriving in Gaza every day.

More than 1,500 trucks with humanitarian aid have entered the Gaza Strip in the first two days of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Some Gazans could not even recognize where they once lived and turned their back on shattered neighborhoods to return to tents where they have sheltered for the past several months.

The family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the 23-year-old American-Israeli who was taken ... had been found in a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Praising Goldberg-Polin’s parents as ...

There are seven women who remain on the list of 33 hostages expected to be released from Hamas captivity in the first phase of the hostage deal. Information

By Mohammed Salem, Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinians poured into the streets to celebrate and headed back to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday,

The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war. Palestinians waited for the first release of prisoners held by Israel.

Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, on the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.