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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said it received 187 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent on Saturday and dispatched the largest aid convoy to Gaza City and the northern parts of the strip since October 7, the day of Hamas' attacks in Israel. 

Emily Hand had her ninth birthday as a hostage in Gaza, the day before she was reunited with her father, who initially believed she had been killed in the devastating attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel last month. Returned in the second group of hostages released by the Islamist movement under a Qatari-brokered deal with Israel, she appeared in good health in a photograph released with fellow hostage Hila Rotem, whose mother remains in Gaza. The daughter of an Irish immigrant to Israel,...

Meanwhile, a Massachusetts man whose relatives were taken hostage by Hamas militants is still waiting for those family members to be returned to Israel.

Thomas Hand thought his daughter Emily was killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks, but she is listed among the Israeli hostages released by Hamas late Saturday.

A second group of hostages released by Hamas amid it’s short-term truce with Israel are on their way to Egypt, according to an Israeli official. The Israeli military said 17 hostages in total were released — including 13 Israeli and four Thai hostages. “The released hostages’ convoy is currently making its way through Egypt to…

Who are the hostages released on Friday? The civilians included 13 Israeli women and children who had been captured by Hamas.

About two dozen hostages were released by Hamas in Gaza on Friday, the first wave of what is expected to be 50 released by the terrorist organization as part of a four-day cease-fire in the war with Israel in Gaza. On the other side of the deal Friday, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners — mostly…

When Natthawaree Mulkan's mother saw that her daughter was among the Thai hostages released by Hamas, she was so happy she danced with her 8-year-old granddaughter outside their home in northeastern Thailand. Natthawaree, a mother of two, was one of 10 Thai hostages freed by Hamas during the first truce of a seven-week-old war that started with the Palestinian militant group's Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel.

A convoy of Egyptian ambulances and a bus is on the move to receive a handover of hostages from the Red Cross, an eyewitness told CNN Saturday night local time.

A four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has begun and families are waiting to see if their loved ones will be among 50 hostages released.