February 10, 2025, Monday
Nepal 1:37:26 pm

Hamas releases 3 hostages

The Nepal Weekly
February 4, 2025

Hamas militants on Saturday freed three male hostages held for around a year in the Gaza Strip in exchange of 183 Palestinians released by Israel from jails in the fourth such exchange of a ceasefire deal that has halted 15 months of intense war.

Militants handed Yarden Bibas and French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Younis, while American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, looking pale and thin, was released to the Red Cross later Saturday morning in Gaza City to the north.

All three were abducted during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war. Their release brings to 18 the number of hostages released since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19.