After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

  • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    They are.
    13 Israeli hostages were released as part of the agreement with Israel.
    11 were released as a seperate agreement with Thailand through Egypt.

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      1 year ago

      Noted. Either I didn’t read it properly or the article has been updated. Thanks for the correction.