Israel-Hamas battle stay: Third record of Israeli captives handed to Crimson Cross

The Israeli Defence Forces have mentioned that the Crimson Cross have acquired the 17 hostages launched immediately.

“In accordance with the knowledge supplied by the Crimson Cross, the hostages, together with 14 Israeli residents and three overseas nationals, have been handed over to them,” an announcement from Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson, learn.

Flights scheduled to reach in Syria’s capital Damascus are being diverted to airports in Latakia and Aleppo, Syrian pro-government newspaper Al Watan mentioned on Sunday.

The diversions got here after Israeli airstrikes focused Damascus Worldwide Airport airport on Sunday lower than 30 hours after it returned to operation, in keeping with Syria Observatory.

Hamas mentioned on Sunday it had launched a hostage who held Russian citizenship from Gaza, including that it had taken the motion in appreciation of Moscow’s place.

Protection of this alleged launch in Russian state media has been second-hand and largely devoid of element.

Russian outlet Tass mentioned it had spoken to the Israeli Embassy in Russia, who had informed them that “members of the family of Israelis with Russian citizenship held hostage by Hamas have arrived in Moscow”.

Watch stay: Israel and Hamas anticipated to swap hostages and prisoners on third day of ceasefire

Egypt acquired lists of 13 Israelis and 39 Palestinians scheduled for launch on Sunday, the third batch within the four-day truce deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar, Diaa Rashwan, the pinnacle of Egypt’s State Data Service (SIS), mentioned in an announcement.

“The truce is continuing with out roadblocks,” the assertion mentioned, including that 120 help tucks crossed from Egypt to Gaza on Sunday together with two gasoline vans and two with gasoline for cooking.

Israeli forces working within the occupied West Financial institution killed at the least eight Palestinians in a 24-hour interval, Palestinian well being officers mentioned Sunday, as a fragile pause in preventing between Israel and Hamas within the Gaza Strip entered its third day.

Violence within the West Financial institution has surged within the weeks since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, setting off a devastating battle within the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians and arrested tons of within the West Financial institution. Jewish West Financial institution settlers have additionally stepped up assaults.

The Palestinian Well being Ministry mentioned that 5 Palestinians have been killed within the militant stronghold Jenin, whereas three others have been killed in separate areas of the West Financial institution since Saturday morning. A type of killed, in al-Bireh within the central West Financial institution, was a young person, the ministry mentioned.

White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan has informed NBC that they anticipated “at the least one American” will probably be a part of the swaps immediately.

He mentioned: “We’ve cause to consider that at the least one American held by Hamas will probably be launched immediately.

“We hope Abigail Edan will probably be launched however we are able to’t know for certain till it occurs.”

The Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross has rolled again feedback made by one among its senior officers to Sky Information earlier immediately through which they mentioned they have been “not assured” a swap between Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners would go forward immediately.

“An earlier assertion from an ICRC official was by no means a sign that the discharge operations deliberate for Sunday is not going to occur,” an announcement learn.

“All preparations for the following launch proceed to maneuver ahead. The operations are delicate and sophisticated and one can by no means be completely sure they are going to happen, given all the complexities.”

Hamas introduced the loss of life of Ahmed al-Ghandour, with out offering additional particulars. He was in command of northern Gaza and a member of Hamas’ prime army council, and is the highest-ranking militant identified to have been killed within the preventing.

Al-Ghandour, believed to have been round 56 years previous, had survived at the least three Israeli makes an attempt on his life, and helped plan a cross-border assault in 2006 through which Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier, in keeping with the Counter Extremism Undertaking, an advocacy group based mostly in Washington.

Hamas mentioned he was killed together with three different senior militants, together with Ayman Siam, who Israel says was in command of Hamas’ rocket-firing unit.

The Israeli army had talked about each males in a Nov. 16 assertion, saying it had focused an underground complicated the place Hamas leaders have been hiding and accusing the group of concealing their deaths.

The Israeli army claims to have killed hundreds of militants, with out offering proof, together with a number of mid-ranking commanders it has recognized by title.

9-year-old Emily Hand’s father sobbed because the pair reunited after she was launched by Hamas on Saturday, 25 November.

She had been held captive since Hamas’s brutal incursion on 7 October.

Her father Thomas Hand, who was initially informed Emily had been killed, could be seen hugging his daughter tightly in footage of their reunion.

“We’re overjoyed to embrace Emily once more,” her household mentioned in an announcement.