Crowds have met 39 freed Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank after 13 Israeli and four Thai captives released by Hamas left Gaza through the Rafah crossing, Aljazeera reported.
The exchange on the second day of the four-day truce was delayed for hours over Hamas’s allegations that Israel was violating the truce deal while families in Gaza returned to find their homes in ruins.
The Palestinian Red Crescent says the Israeli army has besieged two hospitals in the occupied West Bank amid a night of deadly Israeli raids.
More than 14,800 Palestinians, including 6,150 children, have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll from Hamas’s attack stands at 1,200.
