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Palestinians in Gaza scavenge the rubble of their homes after signing ceasefire agreement
``I was dreaming of going home,'' says an Israeli girl released from Gaza.< /span>GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Hamas announced on Saturday that Israeli and Israeli prisoners of war would be exchanged for 50 Palestinian prisoners still held in the besieged Gaza Strip and a four-day cease-fire plan that would allow hostage exchanges. It was expected that the second group would be released. Palestinians want long-term ceasefire
Israel says it has deployed 50 aid trucks to northern Gaza and evacuation centers

Egyptian security sources said they had received the names of 14 Israeli women and children from Hamas and were awaiting further details on when the hostages would be handed over to Egyptian authorities.
Israeli security officials are reviewing the list, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has not confirmed the expected number or timing of releases.

Among the hostages freed on Friday after nearly 50 days in Gaza was 9-year-old Ohad Munder, who ran down the hallway of an Israeli hospital toward his father with open arms. This was revealed in a video released by the hospital.

Gilat Livni, head of the center's pediatric department, told reporters that the three other children who were released at the same time as him were in relatively good condition. Four-year-old Raz Usher, another hostage, lay in her father's arms in her hospital bed after her mother and sister were freed. ``I was dreaming of going back to her house,'' he said. "Now it's a dream come true," his father, Yoni, said.

Israeli prison authorities said they were preparing to release 42 more Palestinian detainees on Saturday, in line with the terms of a Qatar-brokered deal agreed last week.

Under the first cease-fire agreement in the seven-week war, 50 women and children held by Hamas are now in Israeli prisons, along with 150 Palestinian women and teenagers in Israeli prisons. In exchange, he will be released in stages over four days. They were convicted of weapons charges and violent crimes.

Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday, including 13 Israelis, 10 Thai farm workers and one Filipino, and Israel later released 39 Palestinian women and teenagers. released from bondage.

Relief vehicles
Both sides say fighting will resume as soon as the ceasefire ends, but US President Joe Biden says there is a real possibility of an extension. said.

Israel said the attack came after Hamas fighters broke through security barriers around the Gaza Strip and rampaged through Israeli communities around the blockaded enclave, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages. He vowed to destroy Hamas.

Since then, Israel has rained bombs on Gaza, killing about 14,000 people, about 40% of them children, Palestinian health officials said.

For many of the 2.3 million people living in the tiny Gaza Strip, a pause in near-constant air raids and artillery bombardment was their first chance to move safely, take stock of the devastation and seek access to aid imports.

"I hope the ceasefire lasts and is permanent, not just for four or five days. The people cannot pay the cost of this war," Ayman Nofal said at an open-air market in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Told.

Israel said 50 trucks loaded with food, water, evacuation equipment and medical supplies had been deployed to evacuation centers in the northern Gaza Strip and no-evacuation zones in the Palestinian enclaves.

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Israeli Defense Ministry officials coordinating with the Palestinians say this is the first time since the start of the war that large amounts of aid have been deployed to northern Gaza.

'Take a breather'
United Nations convoys provide assistance to two shelters for displaced people in northern Gaza for the first time in more than a month, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Office. Delivered supplies.

"We are happy with the ceasefire. It has given our people a chance to breathe a little," said Haitham Ahmed, a Palestinian resident.

Early Saturday morning, four fuel trucks and four more carrying cooking gas entered Gaza through the Rafah border. Palestinians, suffering from severe fuel shortages due to Israel's blockade of the enclave, stood in long lines to fill gas cylinders.

But after waiting five hours to fill a cylindrical metal container with water, Mohamed Ghandour returned home empty-handed. “I’m going home without gas,” he said.

Aid groups also used the temporary ceasefire to evacuate patients and medical workers from hospitals in the north, which had nearly collapsed due to attacks and fuel shortages.

'Still scared'
Thailand on Friday welcomed the release of 10 of its nationals from Gaza via an alternative route brokered by Egypt and Qatar, adding 20 more He said he has not yet been detained. Iran said it helped facilitate the release.

Among those freed was Thai farm worker Bethun Poom, whose family believes he was killed in a Hamas attack seven weeks ago, according to his sister Longarn Wichagarn. He says he was thinking about it.

In Palestinian families, the joy of being reunited with loved ones was tinged with bitterness. In at least three cases, Israeli police searched families' homes in Jerusalem before prisoners were released, according to witnesses. Police declined to comment.

"There is no real joy, not even this little joy that you feel while waiting," said Sohsan Boukeir, mother of 24-year-old Palestinian Mala Boukeir, who was jailed for eight years for knife and assault in 2015. he said.

Israeli police were seen searching her home in Jerusalem before her daughter was released.

"We're still afraid to feel happy," she added.

In Khan Yunis, Tahani al-Najjar, a Palestinian woman whose home was in ruins when she returned, said a pause in fighting was not enough.

"Tell me what we got out of this ceasefire," she asked. “What have we gained from this ceasefire? You have only broken our hearts. Do you want to find a solution for us? A permanent ceasefire should be concluded for us. is."

Reporting by Bassam Masoud, James Mackenzie, Henriette Chacar, Nafisa Eltahir, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Emma Farge. Additional reporting by Jeff Mason. Written by Ingrid Melander. Editing: John Boyle