12 more Gaza hostages and 30 more Palestinian prisoners released under truce
On Tuesday, 12 more hostages were released by Hamas in exchange for 30 Palestinians being held in prisons.
Wednesday marks the sixth day of the current truce.
Talks are ongoing on extending the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas. Israel says it’s received a list of hostages held in Gaza who could be released later on Wednesday.
Israel has received the names of more hostages who may be released from Gaza today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Heinrich told the BBC.
“We have received the list, we are notifying the families of the people who appear on the list and all other families of the hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip right now”
Tal Heinrich told the BBC
“We said that we are willing to extend this mechanism as we saw today… for every 10 extra Israeli hostages that Hamas release, we agreed to another extra day of humanitarian pause in the fighting.”
More than 14,500 people have been killed since Israel began its retaliatory campaign, after Hamas fighters crossed the border into Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping around 240.
