'I am overjoyed that they will soon be reunited with their family, who has been wracked with fear,'' U.S. President Joe Biden said.
said, the first such release from among the roughly 200 people the militant group abducted during its Oct. 7 rampage in Israel.
The International Committee of the Red Cross, which transported the freed Americans from Gaza to Israel, said their release was “a sliver of hope.”Relatives of other captives welcomed the release and appealed for the others to be freed. First, Israeli airstrikes and “maneuvering” — a presumed reference to a ground attack — would aim to root out Hamas, he said. Next will come a lower intensity fight to defeat remaining pockets of resistance. And, finally, a new “security regime” will be created in Gaza along with “the removal of Israel’s responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip,” Gallant said.Gallant did not say who Israel expected to run Gaza if Hamas is toppled or what the new security regime would entail.
Generators in Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, were operating at the lowest setting to conserve fuel while providing power to vital departments such as intensive care, hospital director Mohammed Abu Selmia said. Others worked in darkness.The lack of medical supplies and water are making it difficult to treat the mass of victims from the Israeli strikes, he said.
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