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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, Emily's mother died of cancer when she was 2 years old and her family described the violent mi...
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…