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Three Israeli hostages – Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher – finally returned home after 15 months of captivity in Gaza on the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Three Israeli hostages were released on Sunday as part of the ceasefire. (Reuters)

Gaza Ceasefire News: In a significant moment today, three Israeli hostages returned home after spending more than 15 months in Hamas captivity in Gaza, as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that aims to end the gruelling war.

The three hostages are Romi Gonen, 24, kidnapped from the Nova music festival, and Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. They were released by Hamas to the International Committee of the Red Cross, who later handed them to Israeli troops in Gaza.

A broadcast footage of the moment showed the hostages being handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas fighters as a huge Palestinian crowd surrounded them. The footage showed the hostages getting out of one car surrounded by a crowd of armed fighters chanting the name of the armed wing of Hamas.

The vehicles were accompanied by armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the cars from an unruly crowd that swelled into the thousands. The truce between Israel and Hamas started at 11:15 am, (local time), in the first step to ending the conflict.

Soon after, these hostages were handed over to the Israeli military, who brought them back home and helped them reunite with their mothers at a military facility near the border with Gaza. They will undergo an initial medical assessment at the facility before they are taken to hospitals to meet the rest of their families.

Later on Sunday, Israel is expected to release around 90 Palestinian prisoners – comprising 69 women. A gradual release of 33 captives over the next six weeks has been agreed on. In exchange, Israel will release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and Palestinians from Gaza who have been detained.

Some 250 people were kidnapped during Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack that triggered 15 months of war. Almost 100 hostages had remained in Gaza after the rest were released or their bodies recovered.

Even before the ceasefire took effect, celebrations erupted across the territory and some Palestinians began returning to their homes. Israel earlier announced the names of the first three hostages to be freed in exchange for the planned release of 90 Palestinian prisoners.

In a separate development, Israel announced it had recovered the body of Oron Shaul, a soldier killed in the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, in a special operation in Gaza. The bodies of Shaul and another soldier, Hadar Goldin, remained there after the 2014 war and had not been returned.

(with agency inputs)

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