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Footage of the release of the first three Israeli hostages by Hamas

Footage of the release of the first three Israeli hostages by Hamas

The first hostages have been released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire agreement with Briton Emily Damari among the three freed.

It ends 471 traumatic days of captivity by the terrorist group for the British-Israeli who was kidnapped from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, foreign media write, according to Telegraph.

Emily had been shot in the hand, with shells wounding her leg, before being blindfolded and put in her car and taken to Gaza.


Romi Gonen, 24, – who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival – and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, are the other two women who were freed.

An international Red Cross convoy picked up the trio from Hamas.

The ceasefire was delayed this morning when the terrorist group failed to hand over the list of names 24 hours ahead of time, as stated as part of the agreement.

Hamas blamed "a technical issue" for the delay.

The Israeli military continued to carry out airstrikes in northern and central Gaza until the list was handed over, killing at least eight Palestinians, the Palestinian civil emergency service said.

The ceasefire began at 11:15 a.m. local time, nearly three hours after the initial agreement, with displaced Palestinians seen walking through rubble as they returned to their homes.