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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wafaa Shurafa and Joseph Krauss

Hamas is set to free 8 more hostages and Israel will release 110 prisoners as Gaza ceasefire holds

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives on Thursday, and Israel is to release another 110 Palestinian prisoners, in the third such exchange since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold earlier this month.

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel sparked the fighting. It has held despite a dispute earlier this week over the sequence in which the hostages were released.

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