The British woman who was among the first Israeli hostages freed said she has “returned to my beloved life” in the first comments she has made since her release.After spending 471 days in captivity, Emily Damari,

Around 270 humanitarian aid trucks and 11 fuel trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Al-Auja and Karm Abu Salem border crossings early Monday, the second day of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, Al-Qahera News TV channel reported.

Some 90 Palestinian detainees have been released as Israel's ceasefire deal with Hamas takes hold. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has called for aid agencies to be given full access to Gaza.

Three Israeli hostages have been reunited with their families, while 90 Palestinian detainees have been released from prison

Around 220 aid trucks were sent from Egypt towards the Gaza Strip on Monday, the second day of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. An Egyptian Red Crescent official in North Sinai said the trucks include 10 carrying fuel.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said ‘our thoughts are with’ British-linked hostages Eli Sharabi, Oded Lifshitz and Avinatan Or.

After 15 months of collective grief and anxiety, three Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity and returned to Israel, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners walked free from Israeli jail, leaving both Israelis and Palestinians torn between celebration and trepidation as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold

The Gaza ceasefire deal calls for the entry into Gaza of 600 trucks carrying humanitarian relief daily. Over the course of the deal’s first stage, 33 Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity in Gaza will also be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

The first hostages freed from Gaza under a long-awaited ceasefire agreement are back in Israel, and desperately needed aid is beginning to flow into the enclave. Follow for live updates.

The agreement for the swap, laid out as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, involves Hamas gradually releasing 33 Israeli hostages held in the Palestinian enclave over the next six weeks in exchange for Israel releasing nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees from the West Bank and Gaza.

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Three hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and dozens of Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Sunday, as a highly anti