Three Israeli hostages were reunited with their mothers and Palestinians returned to their bombed-out neighborhoods on Sunday with the start of a ceasefire suspending the 15-month-old war that has devastated Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/20/world/israeli-hostages-gaza-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Israeli hostages returned as Gaza families survey damage amid ceasefire
The truce calls for fighting to stop, aid for Gaza and 33 Israeli and foreign hostages to go free in return for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.Mohammad Salem (The Japan Times)
