INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
farm workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip for the first time in seven weeks.The hostages were transferred out of Gaza and
handed over to Egyptian authorities at the Rafah border crossing, accompanied by eight staff members of the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in a four-car convoy, the ICRC said.Qatar, which acted as mediator for the truce deal, said 13 Israelis had been released,
some with dual nationalities, plus 10 Thais and a Filipino.Thirty-nine Palestinian women and children were released from Israeli jails in
East.Israel released the names of the Israeli hostages, who included four children accompanied by four family members, and five other
They will continue to be accompanied by IDF soldiers as they make their way to Israeli hospitals, where they will be reunited with their
family members in a conversation monitored by professionals, said Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant earlier.Prime Minister Benjamin
Children, their mothers and other women
Each and every one of them is a world in itself
four-day Israel-Hamas truce, 50 women and children hostages are to be released over four days, in return for 150 Palestinian women and
children among thousands of detainees in Israeli jails
Israel says the truce could be extended if more hostages are released at a rate of 10 per day.The first 13 released on Nov 24 were to be
exchanged for 24 Palestinian women and 15 teenagers.A source briefed on the negotiations said the release of the Thai workers, who were all
men, was unrelated to the truce negotiations and followed a separate track of talks with Hamas mediated by Egypt and Qatar.Thai and Filipino
farmworkers employed in southern Israel were among around 240 hostages dragged back to Gaza by gunmen when Hamas fighters launched a killing
spree on Oct 7.Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said in a social media post that 12 Thai workers had been freed, two more than the
figure given by the Qataris
No reason for the discrepancy was given.The authorities in Tel Aviv are now gearing up for the complex task of helping those returning home
from a nearly seven-week hostage ordeal that may have left them deeply traumatised.Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct 7,
killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to an Israeli count, and seizing about 240 hostages.Israel has vowed to
end as the truce began at 7am (1pm in Singapore) on Nov 24, and aid trucks rolling in from Egypt at the southern end.There was no sound of
Israeli air force activity above northern Gaza, nor any of the contrails typically left by Palestinian rocket fire.Hamas confirmed on its
including the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where violence has surged since the Gaza war erupted almost seven weeks ago.The Israeli military
Many have family members who are not alive anymore
released hostages would then be flown to five major hospitals and medical facilities around Israel, where they would be physically reunited
Berger, a senior clinical psychologist and expert on coping with the trauma of a terror attack or major disaster.The first thing was to
have to tell them something
hospital was among the targets bombed.The Indonesian Hospital was reeling under relentless bombing, operating without light and filled with
bedridden old people and children too weak to be moved, Gaza health officials said.Al-Jazeera quoted Director Mounir El Barsh of the Gaza
flowing to Gaza.Hamas-affiliated Shehab news agency reported that fuel trucks were entering the Rafah crossing once the truce was under
way.By mid-morning, 60 trucks carrying aid had crossed from Egypt at the Rafah border point.Two of the first trucks to enter sported banners
