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Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert were handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas hours after two other hostages were freed. A sixth hostage will be released privately in the final exchange in the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.

Six Israeli hostages were released by Hamas on Saturday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Why it matters: All living hostages who were part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal have been now been released.

Six living hostages — including two who were held in Gaza for a decade — are set to be released by Hamas today

More than 600 Palestinians jailed in Israel will be freed in exchange, the Palestinian prisoners media office said Friday. They include 50 serving life sentences, 60 with long sentences, 47 who were released under a previous hostage-for-prisoner exchange and 445 Palestinians who were seized by Israeli troops in Gaza since the war began.

Hamas is in the process of releasing six Israeli hostages in Gaza – the final living captives whom the warring sides agreed would be released when a ceasefire began last month.

Hamas has handed over three more Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the latest exchange under the fragile ceasefire. The three Israeli men in their 20s — Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov, and Eliya Cohen — were brought out by masked,

Hamas release three more Israeli hostages after months of captivity in the Gaza Strip. Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert have all been releaed by Hamas in a prisoner exchange with 600 Palestinians released by Israel.

Palestinian militant group Hamas has handed over three more Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the latest exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal, reports Reuters. The three Israeli men – Omer Wenkert,