The Associated Press. Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday β five Thai farm workers and three dual German-Israeli nationals β in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. This is the third round of exchanges in the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which is now in its second week.
The chaotic sight of armed fighters escorting Israeli hostages through a crowd of thousands of onlookers caused Israeli leaders to briefly delay the release of the Palestinian prisoners , underscoring the fragility of the current truce. Also Thursday, Hamas confirmed for the first time that Israel killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif , in an airstrike last year. Deif was one of the alleged masterminds of the Oct. The doctors made their appeal to U.
Thaer Ahmed, an emergency medical physician and assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois. Mahmooda Syed, an emergency medicine physician and assistant professor at the University of Washington and Washington State University, said there are 25, men, women and children in Gaza waiting for medical evacuation, including the 2, children.
They got enough messes over there. The U. There has long been friction between the U. Israel meanwhile has urged the U. The array of schools and medical clinics run by UNRWA in east Jerusalem were operating Thursday and the agency said there had been no change in its deliveries of aid in the Gaza Strip. Some two dozen U. UNRWA rejects that claim.
Trump does have leverage to wield over Jordan and Egypt, two strategically important U. The group was once affiliated with al-Qaida but has denounced its former ties. There are concerns from international governments and Syrian civil society that women as well as ethnic and religious minorities might be excluded.
