* Emotional scenes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank as 183 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are freed under a ceasefire and captive-for-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas.
* Three captives – Keith Siegel, Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas – have also been released in two separate locations in southern and northern Gaza.
* The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment.
* Israeli forces continue a major military operation in the occupied West Bank that has targeted the Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps, as well as other Palestinian communities, and killed more than two dozen people since last week.
* Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 47,487 Palestinians and wounded 111,588 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
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