Footage shows Hamas handing over Israeli hostages to Red Cross inside Gaza City

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on November 26, 2023 shows International Red Cross vehicles reportedly carrying hostages released by Hamas in Gaza driving towards the Rafah border point with Egypt. (Belal Al SABBAGH / AFPTV / AFP)
This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on November 26, 2023 shows International Red Cross vehicles reportedly carrying hostages released by Hamas in Gaza driving towards the Rafah border point with Egypt. (Belal Al SABBAGH / AFPTV / AFP)

According to footage broadcast by Al Jazeera, Hamas handed over some of the Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City tonight.

The IDF said the Red Cross handed them 13 hostages near the border fence in northern Gaza. One was taken by helicopter to a hospital, and the other 12 were taken in a convoy to the Hatzerim airbase.

The Al Jazeera footage may indicate that the hostages were being held in areas of Gaza City that the IDF had not yet reached during its ground offensive.

Four other hostages, one Israeli and three Thais, were taken by the Red Cross to Egypt’s Rafah crossing.

The IDF says the four are now in Israel, after entering through the Kerem Shalom crossing, and will be taken by helicopter to hospitals to reunite with their relatives.

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