Ceasefire in Gaza: the first 3 Israeli hostages will be released, thousands of Palestinians on their way home

On the eve of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the guns fell silent at 9:15 a.m. GMT, almost three hours behind schedule, as Hamas was late in providing the list of three Israeli women to be released in the day.

According to the Hostage Families Forum, these are British-Israeli Emily Damari and Romanian-Israeli Doron Steinbrecher, captured at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and Romi Gonen, kidnapped at the Nova music festival, during of the attack carried out by the Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel.