GAZA: On the first day of ceasefire Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday for suspending 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East.
According to international media reports, earlier on Sunday, Hamas handed over three hostages to the Red Cross.
The truce allowed Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighbourhoods to begin rebuilding their lives, while relief trucks delivered much-needed aid. Elsewhere in Gaza, crowds cheered Hamas fighters who emerged from hiding.
Fireworks were launched in celebration as buses carrying the Palestinian prisoners arrived in Ramallah on the West Bank, where thousands of people waited to welcome them. Those freed from Israeli prisons included 69 women and 21 teenage boys from the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to Hamas.
In Tel aviv many of peoples started cheering, when they saw three female hostages were hand over to red cross vehicle surrounded by Hamas fighters.
The process of verification of the Palestinian prisoners released under the ceasefire agreement by the Red Cross in Israel’s Ofer prison continued. After that, 90 Palestinian prisoners were released from the Israeli prison.