Red Cross convoy seen in Gaza not involved with hostages

By Nurit Yohanan

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9 October 2025, 2:39 pm

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Red Cross vehicles move towards the northern Gaza Strip from Al-Zawayda city, near Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza on October 9, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Red Cross vehicles filmed traveling from the southern part of the Strip to the north are unrelated to the group’s expected involvement in transferring hostages from Hamas’s hands to Israel, the Times of Israel has learned.

Despite reports citing the movement as evidence of the upcoming release, information obtained by ToI shows that the trip was part of a pre-planned Red Cross mission intended to deliver medicines and medical equipment.