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2023-11-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
14 Israelis, 9 of them children, freed by Hamas on 3rd day of hostages-for-truce deal
[IsraelTimes] Dual US citizen Avigail Idan, 4, whose parents were murdered, among those released; Russian-Israeli citizen let go at Putin’s request; 3 Thais also freed

A third group of Israeli and foreign hostages was released from Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
captivity Sunday evening and arrived in Israel, numbering 17 people — 14 Israelis and three Thai citizens.

The Israelis included nine children, two mothers, two more women, and one man. Although the Red Thingy said an initial medical examination indicated they were all in good condition, one of the elderly Israeli hostages was taken straight via helicopter to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

Among those released was Avigail Idan, 4, an American-Israeli citizen from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, whose parents were murdered by Hamas bully boyz on October 7 and whom US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
had repeatedly pledged to see released.

The group was handed over to the Red Thingy around 5 p.m., which delivered them to Israeli forces. Unlike previous releases, which took place at the Rafah crossing in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, 13 of the Israelis were transferred through the border fence in the Strip’s north, amid reports, including in Al Jazeera, that they had been held in the Gaza City area, possibly in regions not yet reached by the massive IDF ground offensive.

From the border, they were ferried to Hatzerim Airbase near Beersheba for an initial reception. They were then to be sent to hospitals to meet their families there.

Ten of those freed were from Kfar Aza. Hundreds of evacuated residents of the kibbutz celebrated Sunday evening at an event hall at Shefayim in central Israel, as they watched news of the release. Kibbutz members erupted in cheers at the first glimpses of their neighbors in videos from Gaza.

The man freed, Roni Krivoi, holds dual Russian-Israeli citizenship, and was released at President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s request. Krivoi was not freed under the current Israel-Hamas framework, which provides for the freeing of at least 50 Israelis over four days, with children, their mothers, and other women prioritized. Krivoi was the only Israeli freed through Rafah, along with the three Thai nationals.

The release took place on time, following concerns that the terror group would once again hold up proceedings, as it did on Saturday, when it delayed the release of the second group for hours, putting the temporary truce deal at risk.

Following the release, 183 hostages are believed to remain held by Hamas., including 18 children (8 girls and 10 boys) and 43 women.

The Israel Prison Service said earlier Sunday it was preparing to release 39 Paleostinian terror convicts as part of the deal. That group included a Gazook resident, for the first time. It was unclear if he would be sent to Gaza or the West Bank.

Sunday was the third of four days in which such exchanges were expected to be held, with additional days of calm possible if Hamas agrees to release more hostages.

Israel had allowed 200 trucks into the Strip on Saturday, as required by the deal, and announced that at least 50 of those trucks had reached northern Gaza, a claim confirmed by the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.

A political source told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s behavior on Saturday evening "embarrassed" Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i and Egyptian mediators.

Four Thai nationals were also freed Saturday as part of a separate deal negotiated by Egypt, also with the involvement of Qatar and Iran, after initial reports that seven were set to be released.

These are the 14 Israeli hostages released from Gaza today

[IsraelTimes] • Avigail Idan, 4, whose parents were both murdered on October 7 and has two surviving siblings, was kidnapped with her neighbors from Kfar Aza.

• Hagar Brodutch, 40, and her children Ofri, 10, Yuval, 9, and Oriya, 4, taken captive from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, while their husband/father Avihai was fighting off terrorists.

• Chen Almog Goldstein, 48, and Agam, 17, Gal, 11 and Tal, 9, kidnapped from Kfar Aza. Their father/husband Nadav and daughter Yam were killed in the assault.

• Elma Avraham, 84, taken hostage from Nahal Oz.

• Aviva Siegel, 64, a native of South Africa, taken captive from Kfar Aza along with her husband, US citizen Keith Siegel, who is believed to still be in Gaza.

• Sisters Ela, 8 and Dafna, 15, Elyakim — taken captive from Nahal Oz after their father, Noam, his girlfriend, Dikla and her son, Tomer, were murdered. Mom Maayan Zin has been face of the public battle for their return.

• Roni Krivoi, 25, a dual Russian-Israeli national, was working at the Supernova music festival when he was kidnapped.

Gazan included among Palestinian prisoners released today

[IsraelTimes] The list of 39 Palestinian convicts released today as part of the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas includes for the first time the name of a Gazan resident, Alaa Fathi Abdulhadi Abu Sunima.

Abu Sunima, who will turn 19 in a few days, is a resident of the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. He was arrested in June 2022, for entering into Israel illegally and for possession of weapons/explosive material.

He had previously been detained in November 2021, as he was trying to sneak through the security barrier that separates Gaza from Israel, and was released immediately afterwards.

It is unclear if Abu Sunima will be allowed to cross into the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing, or from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, or whether he will be sent to the West Bank until the end of military operations in Gaza.

The list of Palestinian convicts to be released today also includes 21 residents of East Jerusalem, as well as West Bank Palestinians from Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem (three each), Bethlehem, Jericho, Jenin (two each), Nablus, and Qalqilya (one each).
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