(30 Jan 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 30 January 2025
1. Various of hostage Arbel Yehoud being released, crowd gathering around
2. Various of masked militants escorting Yehoud
3. Various of crowd gathering around vehicles marked with International Committee of the Red Cross logo, vehicles leaving with Yehoud
STORYLINE:
Chaotic scenes unfolded as an Israeli hostage was led through a crowd in Gaza before being handed over to the Red Cross on Thursday.
Thousands of people pressed around the handover site in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, in front of the destroyed home of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Footage showed Arbel Yehoud, a 29-year-old hostage, looking stunned as she was led through the crowd by militants toward waiting Red Cross vehicles.
Hundreds of militants from Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad group arrived with a convoy in a show of force, and thousands of people gathered to watch, some from the tilted rooftops of bombed-out buildings.
Many in the crowd shouted and surrounded Yehoud as masked militants pushed people away and escorted her through.
Red Cross vehicles were then delayed as they tried to drive away.
The Israeli military later said the hostages had been transferred by Red Cross to Israeli forces inside Gaza.
Israel said Yehoud was supposed to have been freed Saturday and delayed the opening of crossings to northern Gaza when she was not.
Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold earlier this month.
Israel was expected to release another 110 Palestinian prisoners.
The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel sparked the fighting.
AP video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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