Middle East live updates: Released hostages meet with their mothers
The ceasefire began Sunday after Hamas supplied a list of the hostages slated for return to Israel.
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Emily Damari has been named by Hamas as being among the first hostages it plans to release.BBC News - 47m -
Three hostages released by Hamas reunited with mothers after ceasefire deal
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Middle East crisis live: Israeli forces ‘fired on World Food Programme convoy in Gaza’
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Israel ramps up strikes across Middle East
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Middle East crisis live: at least 37 killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza including in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’
Airstrike hit tent encampment sheltering displaced families and also killed director-general of Gaza’s police department. Lebanon ’s National News Agency reports that Israeli forces fired two ...The Guardian - Jan. 2
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