A Ceasefire In The Israel-Hamas Conflict Has Begun, With The Release Of 13 Hostages On Day 1: Top Updates

In the midst of the continuous conflict, Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants in Palestine declared a four-day ceasefire on Friday morning. During the day, 13 Israeli women and children who were hostages are anticipated to be freed.

A hospital in Gaza was one of the targets hit, officials informed news agency Reuters, hours before the ceasefire. Following the little pause, both parties have decided to pick up where they left off.

Top updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict are as follows:

• The Qatari foreign ministry told Reuters that the ceasefire will include a complete ceasefire in both the north and south of Gaza and that it would start at 7 a.m. local time.

• The first batch of captives is expected to be freed around 4 p.m. local time, according to Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesman for the Qatar ministry, who made the announcement in Doha. Over the course of the following four days, 50 hostages would be set free. Palestinians will also be released from Israeli prisons, according to Al-Ansari.

• Hamas said that 200 aid-carrying vehicles would reach Gaza each day. According to Qatar, the news agency AP claimed that fuel will be transported by the aid.

• The combat before the truce was more intense than usual, with Israeli jets hitting more than 300 targets and the forces fighting near the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

• An Indonesian hospital in Gaza City claimed to be in severe shock due to ongoing bombing. Health officials in Gaza claimed that the hospital was completely dark and that many patients, including youngsters, were bedridden.

• According to Doctors Without Borders, there is an excess of patients and families seeking shelter in the facility of Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, which provides care for burn patients and supports emergency rooms.

• On Thursday, Israel announced that it had arrested Muhammad Abu Salamiya, the head of Al Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, for allegedly questioning his involvement in the hospital’s usage as a Hamas command center. Salamiya and other doctors were arrested, and Hamas denounced the operation, claiming that Israel was attempting to evacuate the facility’s remaining patients.

• Hezbollah, a terrorist organization in Lebanon, claimed to have fired 48 Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon on Thursday, prompting the activation of air raid sirens throughout northern Israel.

• After the ceasefire expires, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to carry on the battle, destroying Hamas’ military capabilities, ending the organization’s 16-year reign in Gaza, and freeing the 240 hostages detained there.

• According to Reuters, Turkey’s health ministry announced on Thursday that it intended to evacuate Gaza’s youth and children who were ill or injured on Friday.

• Since Hamas used motor gliders, boats, and trucks to enter Israeli towns on October 7, 1,200 Israelis and 13,300 Palestinians have died in the current conflict. Israel conducted a deadly invasion of the Gaza Strip in retaliation and cut off the region’s supplies of water, petroleum, and electricity.