TEL AVIV — The first group of Israelis in Hamas custody have been handed to the
International Committee for Red Cross and were in ambulances on the way from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the Rafah crossing and from there into Israel, an Israeli official told Israeli media Friday evening.
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Friday’s release of 13 detainees — women and children — is the first of four expected stages. Hamas has agreed to release some 50 captives over the four days of the truce with Israel — all children, mothers, and other women.
The sides agreed that Hamas may eventually free more, in exchange for an
extension of the ceasefire by an extra day for each ten Israeli hostages.
Israel is set to release 150 Palestinian "security prisoners" , all of them women and children, in return for the 50 Israelis. It will free 39 Friday in return for the first 13 Israelis to return.
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