Overview
- The 24-year-old Nova festival abductee was reunited with family in Hod HaSharon after nearly two years in captivity.
- Hamas released August footage showing him gaunt in a tunnel saying he had gone days without food as he dug what he said would be his own grave.
- The ceasefire, brokered by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, is delivering staged hostage releases alongside the freeing of Palestinian prisoners.
- The Israeli military said the Red Cross is heading to southern Gaza to collect several coffins containing hostages’ bodies for transfer and identification in Israel.
- President Donald Trump celebrated the truce as ending the war, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the releases, and thousands in Gaza moved north hoping calm holds.