Eight hostages held by Hamas held in Gaza in the midst of chaotic scenes as part of an agreement on the trial with Israel.
Three Israelites and five Thai nationals had handed over the Red Cross before moving it to Israeli forces and took it to Israel.
A total of 110 Palestinians were later released from Israeli prison, including 32 with life sentences and 30 minors.
Israel delayed their release in response in the way they were coated as they had handed them over.
The editions on Thursday meant 15 hostages since the truce came into force on January 19th. It still sticks to eighty -two.
Israeli soldier Agam Berger, 20, was first published on Thursday – led by masked attackers through the scene of the ruins in the event that operated the scene in Jabalia, north of Gaza.
The crowds of civilians were retained by armed fighters of Hamas as they appeared on the platform and received a certificate before they transferred it to the Red Cross.
She was one of seven women from the unarmed units of observers who were abducted on October 7, 2023, and the last remaining in Gaza.
In Tel Aviv Square, the crowds watched on the big screen.
“I’m thrilled … When I see her face, when I see her returning to her family. She is exciting,” said Yahel Oren, who served in the same unit as Ms Berger a decade ago, told the BBC.
Photos posted by the Israeli army showed that four other young women from the unit who were posted on Saturday were published in the previous exchange on Saturday.
In a statement, her family said that now they could “start the healing process”, but that “recovery will not be complete until all hostages are back home.”
About two hours later, in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, seven other hostages were performed in the middle of chaotic scenes.
They were led by armed fighters through the crowds of cheerleading viewers, many filmed with mobile phones, before handing over them to the Red Cross in the vehicles waiting.
It symbolically took place in front of the remains of the house – bombed by Israel – the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, an attack architect October 7th. Israeli troops in Rafah were killed Sinwar in October 2024.
“There were a lot of chaos, there were a lot of push,” said a journalist who covered the handover for the BBC. There were singing of Sinwar’s name and Hamas, he said.
The Gomili woman said she was “proud of Gaza and Gaza -O’s resistance.”
In Tel Aviv, people watched worriedly as they held the Israeli flags and hostages.
In addition to Mrs. Berger, Israeli Civil Arbel Yehud, 29, and Gadi Moses, 80, and Thai agricultural workers Pongsak Thaenna, Sathian Suwannakham, Watwerra Srioun, Bannawat Seatao and Surazak Lamnao.
In the sign of insecurity of tribute, Israel stopped by the prisoner of the prisoner until he was assured that the scenes that followed the hostages at Khan Younis would not happen again.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “shocking scenes” “additional evidence of the unimaginable brutality of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
Later, the Prime Minister’s office said that he had since received from the mediator “an obligation that a safe exit would be guaranteed to our hostages”, he has yet to be released.
The delay was the latest move that hit the sensitive and complex reciprocal steps that Israel and Hamas were committed under the trial conditions.
Israel delayed two days by allowing hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to the northern Gaza after Hamas failed to include Arbel Yehud in the previous round of hostage edition 25. January.
Two hundred fifty -one people were trapped when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people. The attack was launched by a war that ravaged Gaza.
Israeli 15-month military offensive killed 47,460 Palestinians in the territory, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza Hamas.
Before Thursday, 290 Palestinian prisoners – ranging from those who served long penalties for bombing and other attacks on teenagers held without charges – was released under the tribute.
Most returned to the occupied west coast, East Jerusalem and Gaza, while about 70 most serious offenders were deported.
