US President Joe Biden said he hoped a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could last as long as the hostages were released, after Hamas released 17 more.
According to international media reports, Hamas has said it wants to extend the cease-fire, which will enter its fourth and final agreed-upon day on Monday, if serious efforts are made to increase the number of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel.
Israel released 39 teenage Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, bringing the total to 117 since the ceasefire began.
Hamas said it had handed over 13 Israelis, three Thais and one with Russian citizenship, and the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed they had successfully transferred them from Gaza on Sunday.
Omar Abdullah Al Haj, 17, one of the Palestinian prisoners released on Sunday, said he was kept in the dark about what was happening in the outside world.
“I can’t believe I’m free now but my joy is incomplete because we still have our brothers in prison, and then there’s all the news about Gaza that I have to learn now,” he told reporters.
Thailand’s prime minister says the last three Thai hostages freed are healthy.
Efforts to free the remaining 15 detained Thais will continue, the Foreign Ministry said. Sunday’s hostage release follows the release of 13 Israelis and four foreigners on Saturday.
The deal survived an earlier threat when Hamas said on Saturday it was delaying the release of hostages until all ceasefire conditions were met, including a promise to send aid trucks to northern Gaza.
Qatari diplomats are now in Gaza to oversee the entry and distribution of their country’s aid, Qatar’s foreign ministry said.
A U.N. official who participated in a humanitarian convoy to northern Gaza said Sunday that aid groups were on their way to delivering the largest shipment in more than a month, describing thin, gaunt residents quenching their thirst as water arrived.
“People are very desperate and you can see in the eyes of the adults that they haven’t eaten,” James Elder of the United Nations Children’s Fund told reporters in southern Gaza after returning from Gaza City.
Even as relief supplies flowed north, Elder said he saw hundreds of Gazans heading in the other direction, fearing renewed Israeli bombardment if the four-day ceasefire was not prolonged.
“People are so terrified that this break is not going to continue,” he said.
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