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Gaza crowds chant for Hamas as hostages handed over to Red Cross

By Agencies 19 January 2025, 5:30 pm 87 Edit

Live television pictures show three female hostages exiting a vehicle surrounded by armed Hamas men. The hostages get into vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross as the crowd chants the name of the armed wing of Hamas.

“The three women hostages were officially handed over to the Red Cross at Al-Saraya Square in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City,” a Hamas official tells AFP. “This occurred after a member of the Red Cross team met with them and ensured their well-being.”

Images show the hostage vehicle surrounded by a huge crowd, with many people holding up phones and filming. The vehicles were accompanied by armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the cars from an unruly crowd that swelled into the thousands.

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