Two Israeli and five Thai hostages handed to Red Cross by Hamas, Israel military says – live | Israel

The Israeli army says the Red Cross has confirmed that it has seven hostages – two Israelis and five Thai nationals.

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Zakaria Zubeidi, a former leader of a Palestinian militant group jailed for attacks that killed several Israelis, will be released on Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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Zubeidi, 49, rose to prominence during the second intifada, a Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s, becoming one of the most well-known militant leaders in Jenin and its refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

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It was during the uprising that Zubeidi’s mother was shot and killed when the Israeli army raided the camp, reports AFP.

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He is known by Israeli security services as the man behind several deadly, high-profile attacks against Israelis.

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Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud has been handed over to the Red Cross, Israel’s Channel 12 said, as footage showed her surrounded by a surging crowd and armed Palestinian militants in a chaotic scene in southern Gaza on Thursday.

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In a statement on Thursday morning, the Spanish foreign ministry called for Israel to drop its ban on Unrwa, saying the move risked endangering both lives and the ceasefire.

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“The government rejects the entry into force of the Knesset laws that prevent Unrwa operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and calls for their application to be suspended,” it said.

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Spain expresses its deepest concern about the impact that this decision will have on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, jeopardising the ceasefire that began on January 19.

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Unrwa is essential and irreplaceable for the lives of the 6 million refugees to whom it provides essential services, and for regional stability, and Spain firmly supports its work.”

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Spain’s socialist-led government has been one of the most outspoken European critics of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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In November 2023, the Israeli government recalled its ambassador in Madrid and said it would be reprimanding Spain’s top diplomat in Tel Aviv after the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said he had “genuine doubts” about whether Israel was complying with international humanitarian law in its offensive in Gaza.

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At the end of May last year, Spain joined Ireland and Norway in officially recognising a Palestinian state.

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The other two Israelis expected to be released today are Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Moses, an 80-year-old man. There has been no official confirmation of the identities of the Thai nationals who will be released, reports the Associated Press (AP).

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Israel said Yehoud was supposed to have been freed Saturday and delayed the opening of crossings to northern Gaza when she was not.

\n A number of foreign workers were taken captive along with dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers during Hamas’s 7 0ctober 2023 attack. Twenty-three Thais were among more than 100 hostages released during a weeklong ceasefire in November 2023. Israel says eight Thais remain in captivity, two of whom are believed to be dead.

\n According to the AP, of the people expected to be released from prisons in Israel, 30 are serving life sentences after being convicted of deadly attacks against Israelis. Zakaria Zubeidi, a prominent former militant leader and theater director who took part in a dramatic jailbreak in 2021 before being rearrested days later, is also among those to be released.

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The United States, Egypt and Qatar, which brokered the ceasefire after a year of tough negotiations, resolved the dispute with an agreement that Yehoud would be released on Thursday. Another three hostages, all men, are expected to be freed on Saturday along with dozens more Palestinian prisoners.

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The Israeli military said on Thursday that freed Israeli female soldier Agam Berger had been handed over to the army by the Red Cross after her release in Gaza by Hamas.

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“The returning hostage is currently being accompanied by … special forces and ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) forces on her return to Israeli territory, where she will undergo an initial medical assessment,” the military said in a statement.

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A female Israeli soldier has been seen waving from a podium set up at the hostage handover location in Gaza, reports Reuters. Live TV showed the soldier being led by armed men to the stage, according to the news agency.

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Live TV shows Red Cross vehicles arriving at the hostage handover point in Gaza, reports Reuters.

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Earlier, militants from Hamas and allied groups Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees arrived at the site in Khan Younis ahead of the handover of Israeli hostages, according to Hamas sources and witnesses.

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According to Reuters, the spokesperson of the Islamic Jihad armed wing said on the Telegram platform that the group “completed procedures to hand over two Israeli hostages”.

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Three Israeli hostages are to be released on Thursday under the terms of the ceasefire deal with Hamas have been named as Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 20, and Gadi Mozes, 80. Five Thai nationals are also set to be released, although their names have not been publicly released. In exchange, Israel will free 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 30 minors, according to NGO the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

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The main UN agency serving Palestinians in the occupied territories, including Gaza, looks set to be shut down on Thursday as Israel defied widespread international support for the agency in a move Unrwa predicted would “sabotage Gaza’s recovery and political transition”.

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And for a third straight day, thousands of Palestinians in southern Gaza trekked by foot, motorbike and animal-drawn carts back to their homes in the war-ravaged north after Israeli forces withdrew from the two main roads earlier this week.

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The column of people stretched for miles along Gaza’s coastal road on Wednesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that over 376,000 Palestinians had reached northern Gaza from the south.

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Here are some more recent developments:

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  Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist rebel group which led the military operation to topple Bashar al-Assad last month, has been appointed president of Syria for a “transitional period”.

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  Al-Qaida’s affiliate group in Syria, Hurras al-Din, has announced its dissolution just weeks after the regime of Bashar al-Assad was toppled by Islamist group HTS.

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  US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited Gaza on Wednesday, then met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US envoy met with Netanyahu alone for more than two hours, an Israeli official said, before they were joined by other ministers. An Israeli government spokesperson and the White House official declined to provide any details on Witkoff’s visit to Gaza, which Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said included an inspection of the Netzarim corridor.

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  An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed at least 10 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack which the Israeli military said targeted armed militants. The airstrike was in the area of Tubas, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

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  Turkey on Wednesday condemned an Israeli strike that killed three of its citizens who attempted to illegally cross from Lebanon to Israel. “It has been learned that the three Turkish citizens, with whom contact had been lost while attempting to cross illegally from Lebanon to Israel, lost their lives as a result of an Israeli airstrike in the region,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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  Egypt’s president rejected on Wednesday a suggestion by President Donald Trump that Palestinians from the war-torn Gaza Strip be moved to neighbouring Egypt and Jordan, saying it would undermine the idea of an independent Palestinian state and that an influx of refugees could destabilise his country. In his first public comments on Trump’s suggestion, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said “there are historical rights that cannot be ignored” and called the idea “an injustice” to which Egypt would not be party.

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  The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, told the UN general assembly that “respect for international humanitarian law is in crisis” and “threatening the very humanity that these laws seek to preserve”, citing the situations Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.

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  The official death toll in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the territory after the 7 October attacks now stands at 47,417, according to the territory’s ministry of health. In its latest daily update, the ministry added that the latest figure for people injured was 111,571.

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Key events

Emma Graham-Harrison

Reporting from Tel Aviv:

US president Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, has just visited Hostage Square as the crowd waited for confirmation that Gadi Moses had been handed to the Red Cross.

Several, when they realised who was there, raced to pay personal tribute to Witkoff. “Thank you for freeing the hostages, thank you to Mr Trump,” one shouted.

Witkoff went for a meeting in a public library beyond, where the families of hostages have a room they use for meetings – but there is no confirmation he met any of them.

He had earlier met the four female soldiers freed on Saturday. He’s now left in a convoy.

Freed Israeli soldier, Agam Berger, is on her way to hospital, said Israel’s military, where she will undergo a medical assessment.

“The returning hostage, IDF soldier Agam Berger, together with her parents, just took off aboard an Israeli air force helicopter to make her way to the hospital where she will receive medical treatment,” the military said in a statement.

Here is a video of Berger being released earlier:

Peter Beaumont

International staff working for the UN’s main agency serving Palestinians have been forced to leave Israel, after its ban on the agency came into effect.

As the UN flag was still flying above the headquarters building in Jerusalem, Palestinian staff were not present at the site over security concerns amid a planned “celebration” by Israeli rightwing groups outside the compound.

While Unrwa said on Thursday that it would continue working in Gaza and the West Bank for as long as possible, it added it had received no communications from Israel on how the ban would be implemented – most crucially over the delivery of aid to Gaza.

The Israeli ban went ahead on Thursday after the country’s supreme court rejected a petition by Palestinian human rights group Adalah contesting the new law prohibiting Unrwa.

The court did note that the legislation “prohibits Unrwa activity only on the sovereign territory of the state of Israel”, but did not prohibit such activity in Gaza and the West Bank.

The ban does apply, however, to Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, where Unrwa has a field headquarters for its operations in the West Bank.

About 25 international staff left Israel on Wednesday after Israel had refused to issue visas or extend existing ones. International staff make up about 2% of the agency’s workforce.

“The headquarters is still there, and flag is still up,” said Juliette Touma, an Unrwa spokesperson.

“It’s a UN compound which means it must be protected. We don’t have plans to close our operations,” she said, adding that their work in the West Bank and Gaza was continuing.

“But we are in the dark. We have not received any instructions from Israel how the ban will be enforced beyond being told to vacate.”

Rebecca Ratcliffe

At Wiwwaeo Sriaoun’s home in Udon Thani, north-east Thailand, everyone is anxiously following the news on their phones. Wiwwaeo’s son Watchara, 33, was one of dozens of Thai migrant workers kidnapped from the farms on which they were working in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

Five of the six Thais still being held hostage are due to be released on Thursday. However their names are yet to be confirmed.

“I’m with [Watchara’s] aunt and other relatives, including my grandchild. All of us are just waiting for good news and praying that Watchara and his friends will come back,” said Wiwwaeo.

She was told by the Royal Thai embassy in Israel that she will get a call when names of the Thai hostages to be released are confirmed. “I’m hoping that one of them will be my son,” she said.

Watchara’s daughter, Irada, who is nine, had just arrived home from school, she said. She was hoping for good news. Neighbours had sent messages of support.

Watchara moved to work in Israel three years ago with his younger brother, hoping to save up money and pay off the family’s debts. Israel has been a common destination for Thai migrant workers as the salaries there are much higher than those offered back home. Most work in farming jobs.

Since the 7 October attacks, the Israeli government said they made up the largest single group of foreign dead and missing. In 2023, 23 Thais were released following diplomatic efforts that involved neighbouring Malaysia – which has ties with Hamas, having hosted its leaders in the past – as well as Qatar, Israel, Egypt, Iran and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In total, 46 Thais have been killed.

Emma Graham-Harrison

Reporting from Tel Aviv:

A crowd gathered from early morning in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, many carrying placards with the faces of the three Israelis due for release on Thursday.

They cheered as live footage from Gaza showed soldier Agam Berger, 19, the first to be handed over, alive and walking independently, surrounded by Hamas fighters.

“She made it,” said Yahel Oren, 31, watching the large screen in tears. “Its hard to think of her alone there, but at least we can count the minutes she has left.”

Oren served a decade ago at the Nahal Oz base where Berger was captured. Part of a group campaigning for the freedom of the female ‘spotter’ troops held in Gaza, she was wearing a T-shirt saying “once a spotter always a spotter”.

There were cheers again after Berger, the last female soldier held in Gaza, was handed to the Red Cross in the north of the strip.

Two civilian hostages, Arbel Yehoud 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, were expected to be released later in the morning in southern Gaza.

By late morning the crowd was hundreds strong, with schoolchildren and parents pushing babies, beside veterans of the long campaign to “bring them home”. Some had taken the day off, to join the crowd for a rare moment of joy after more than a year of anguish.

One waved a Thai flag, for five Thai nationals also due for release on Thursday. They have not yet been named.

Ruth Michaelson

Ruth Michaelson and Obaida Hamad in Suwayda:

Suwayda is well equipped for protests. The central square of the city, home to one of Syria’s larger minority communities, hosts the crowds of weekly – or sometimes even daily – demonstrators calling for the representation and public services they have demanded for years.

Long before the fall last month of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the southern province of the same name had become a byword for resistance to rule by Damascus, unafraid to protest despite Assad’s crackdown on dissent and his hollow pledges to protect communities like theirs.

The area is overwhelmingly filled with members of the Druze sect, who follow an esoteric form of Islam whose adherents span a swath of Lebanon and Syria, including the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Even before Assad fled last month as an insurgency reached Damascus, residents of Suwayda had been demanding a secular state that enshrined minority rights, and are now emphatically insisting their voices be heard in the new Syria.

“Since last August until now we’ve been protesting daily,” said Alia Kuntar, a lawyer, after the weekly demonstration held in Suwayda City’s central square in front of a metal pavilion emblazoned with the words “Peace to all Syrians”. “And we will keep protesting until we get the state we want. We haven’t felt any crackdown from the new government, but equally we didn’t see any action on the ground in response to our demands.”

She added: “Of course, we’ll increase our demonstrations until we get what we want.”

Protests in Suwayda began in August 2023 for increased public services and quickly spilled into demands for Assad to go, in a place that his regime had long ignored. The southern province was a rare pocket of resistance for well over a year before his rule collapsed amid a wider insurgency at the end of 2024. It now presents a challenge for Syria’s caretaker government, which is led by the Islamists who toppled Assad.