The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gaza or Palestinian detainees in Israel, has defended itself in a rare statement outlining the limits of its role.Insisting on its neutrality,

A hostage recently released from Hamas captivity revealed that she was held in United Nations facilities and denied medical treatment despite severe injuries.

Hamas and Israel will conduct their next swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with three Israelis, including the Israeli-Argentine father of the youngest hostages, to be freed in return for 90 people held in Israeli jails.

Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant movement Hamas handed four female Israeli soldier hostages over to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday,

Latest news and live updates on the Gaza ceasefire deal as four female hostages are set to be released. The hostages are all Israeli soldiers.

Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag—to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City. The soldiers had been abducted during Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7,

The four soldiers – Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag – were all stationed at an observation post on the edge of Gaza and abducted by Hamas fighters who overran their base during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

GAZA/JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday released the second batch of Israeli hostages, four women who were received by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City.

Two hundred Palestinian prisoners have also been released today by Israel in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal.

Emily Damari, 28, Doron Steinbrecher, 31, and Romi Gonen, 24, were released with sick 'memorabilia' commemorating the nearly 500 days they spent in Hamas internment

Hamas and Israel will carry out their fourth hostage-prisoner swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with the militant group to free three Israeli captives in exchange for 90 inmates in Israeli jails.