Hamas said on Sunday it had freed a hostage who has Russian citizenship from Gaza, while Egypt received lists of 13 Israelis and 39 Palestinians scheduled for release during the day as part of a truce between Hamas and Israel.
Hamas said it freed the person in appreciation of Moscow’s stance on its war with Israel, which broke out after Hamas fighters rampaged through southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages back into Gaza.
In response to that attack, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas that run Gaza, bombarding the enclave and mounting a ground offensive in the north.Some 14,800 Palestinians have been killed, Gaza health authorities say, and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The killing of a Palestinian farmer in the central Gaza Strip had earlier added to concerns over the fragility of the four-day truce between Hamas and Israel.
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The farmer was killed when targeted by Israeli…