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35m ago
09.46 GMT
Summary
of the day so far...
Here is a
quick round up of what has happened today:
- The much anticipated ceasefire, which comes in three phases, began at 11:15 local time (9:15 GMT) after a three-hour delay.
- Hamas released the names of three female hostages who it says it will be freed later today. They are Doron Steinbrecher, 31, and dual British-Israeli Emily Damari, 28, who were kidnapped from their kibbutz, and Romi Gonen, 24, who was taken from the Supernova Festival in October 2023.
- The ceasefire was delayed this morning because Israel said it had not received a list of the three hostages to be freed on time. Hamas blamed “technical” reasons for the delay, saying it was still committed to the truce.
- The first six-week phase of the ceasefire will see more than 30 hostages - including women, children and elderly people - exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The releases will be staggered.
- Gaza’s civil defence agency said eight Palestinian people had been killed after deadly Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip during the hours after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect. Three Palestinians were killed in eastern Gaza City by Israeli drones, medics in the territory said on Sunday.
- Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s party announced it was leaving the country’s ruling coalition in protest at what it called the “scandalous” Gaza ceasefire agreement. Benjamin Netanyahu’s slim majority remains intact.
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