In a historic breakthrough, the militant group Hamas has released the 20 surviving hostages who’ve been held in captivity for two years.
After being handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, they were transferred to hospitals for medical assessments. Images show Eitan Mor and Guy Gilboa-Dalal being reunited with their families earlier today.
In exchange for the hostages, Israel is expected to release over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange deal agreed by Israel and Hamas.
In the occupied West Bank cheering crowds greeted buses of released Palestinian prisoners. Israel says it has released more than nineteen hundred Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal.
US President Donald Trump welcomed the release of the hostages in his lengthy address to the Knesset. Trump said Monday’s events would be remembered as the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
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00:00 Israel says all living hostages have arrived in Israel
00:43 DW Correspondent Tania Krämer in Jerusalem
05:46 Trump welcomes release of Israeli hostages
07:05 Hans-Jakob Schindler, Middle East Analyst
12:33 "Everybody in Gaza is in need of humanitarian assistance"
12:55 Olga Cherevko, UN Humanitarian Affairs Office in Deir al-Balah, Gaza
18:18 World leaders arriving in Egypt for further peace negotiations
19:09 Karim El-Gawhary, Journalist in Cairo
23:50 Turkey’s role in ceasefire deal
24:08 DW Correspondent Julia Hahn in Istanbul
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