Three Israeli hostages released

 Newsmax:

The first three hostages released from Gaza have arrived in Israel, the military announced Sunday, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold. Their mothers were waiting to meet them.

Footage showed the three women walking to Red Cross vehicles in Gaza City, surrounded by a crowd that swelled into the thousands as people held up cellphones and scrambled onto cars. The vehicles were accompanied by masked, armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the handover.

The three women were taken for medical assessment. “They appear to be in good health,” President Joe Biden said in brief remarks.

Images released by Israel's military showed them walking between the Red Cross and soldiers, and one of the women, 28-year-old Emily Damari, later raising her bandaged hand in triumph. The military said she lost two fingers in the attack that sparked the war.

In Tel Aviv, thousands of people who gathered to watch the news on large screens erupted in applause. For months, many had gathered in the square to demand a ceasefire deal. Relatives of the women jumped, clapped and wept.

“An entire nation embraces you,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, also were released. Gonen was abducted from the Nova music festival, while the others were kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Damari is an Israeli-British dual citizen and Steinbrecher has Israeli and Romanian citizenship.

The ceasefire ushers in an initial six weeks of calm and raises hopes for the release of nearly 100 remaining hostages and an end to the devastating 15-month war. A last-minute delay by Hamas put off the truce's start by nearly three hours, but the spokesman for Hamas' military wing later said it is committed to the ceasefire.
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Hamas has changed its tune since it started this war expressing its genocidal intent toward Israelis.  It is doing it because it literally got its butt beat by Israel's response to the mass murder of Jews and the hostage-taking.  Gaza has become a pile of rubble.  The return of the hostages is more evidence of the defeat of Hamas.

See also:

What Hamas Gave the Three Released Female Hostages Will Make Your Skin Crawl and Your Anger Boil Over

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