The truce continues to carry with extra captive and prisoner swaps anticipated, as Gaza receives restricted however much-needed humanitarian support.
Here’s what to know concerning the state of affairs on Saturday, November 25, 2023:
Hostage and prisoner swap
- Hamas fighters are set to launch a second group of captives in change for Palestinian prisoners, in line with officers.
- Egypt says it has acquired an inventory from Hamas of 14 captives to be launched from Gaza.
- Forty-two Palestinians held in Israeli jails had been set to be launched, together with 18 ladies and 24 teenage boys.
- Hamas has already launched 13 Israeli ladies and youngsters, together with some twin residents.
- The group has additionally freed 10 Thais and one Filipino citizen.
- Thirty-nine Palestinian ladies and youngsters had been launched from Palestinian prisons.
- The Israeli army says the launched captives will undergo a medical evaluation in Israel earlier than being reunited with their households.
Truce
- 4-day truce largely holds in Gaza into its second day with solely a small plume of gray smoke reported over northern Gaza, the main target of Israeli assaults.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says for each further 10 captives who’re launched, there can be an extra day of truce.
- Beneath the truce deal, Hamas is anticipated to free a complete of fifty captives in change for 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Humanitarian support
- A UN convoy has reached two amenities of the worldwide organistion’s refugee company for Palestinians (UNRWA) sheltering internally displaced folks within the north, the place it delivered flour.
- 4 tankers of gas and one other 4 containing cooking gasoline have entered the southern Gaza Strip by way of the Rafah crossing.
- The Palestine Purple Crescent Society says 196 vans carrying meals, water and medical provides have entered Gaza by way of the Rafah crossing, changing into the most important such support supply for the reason that battle began.
- In line with the Israeli defence ministry physique that handles Palestinian civil affairs, 200 support vans in whole have entered Gaza after the truce.
Different developments
- An Israeli-owned cargo ship has been broken in a suspected drone assault by Iran within the Indian Ocean, in line with a US defence official.
- The Israeli military says it has shot down a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon and focusing on an Israeli drone.