DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas hands 4 female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross after parading them before a crowd.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel is letting people return to northern Gaza for the first time in over a year as truce holds.

The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold.

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The fragile ceasefire deal has so far held, quieting airstrikes and rockets and allowing for increased aid into Gaza.

The Israeli military says the first three hostages set to be released from Gaza have been transferred to the Red Cross and are on their way toward Israeli forces, hours after the ceasefire between Isr

The hostages and 200 prisoners were released in the second swap of the Gaza cease-fire deal, which went into effect this month.

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Hamas is expected to release four female Israeli soldiers for 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees in the second exchange since a ceasefire took effect last weekend

A fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Monday, following the dramatic exchange of three hostages for 90 Palestinian prisoners in an agreement aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza.

It said the Red Cross would ferry Palestinian prisoners ... gathered in makeshift tents in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah preparing to set out north for Gaza City the next day.

Magdy reported from Cairo. Shurafa reported from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip. Joseph Federman in Jerusalem, Sam McNeil at Reim Military Base, Israel, Zeke Miller in Washington and David Rising in ...