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- Medical professionals treating hostages note conditions of solitary confinement, limited light exposure, and poor meals.
- Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their ceasefire by two days.
- Relatives demand the Israeli government ensure the freedom of all hostages.
Al Jazeera said the Palestinians had arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem.
To date, some 15,000 people, roughly 40 per cent of them children, have been killed, Palestinian health authorities said.
Israel had released 150 prisoners prior to Tuesday’s moves.
“The people who came to us lost a significant amount of their body weight in such a short time, 10 per cent or more.”
“They didn’t give them light. They gave it to them for only two hours,” she was quoted as saying by the Ynet news site on Monday.
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‘Very withdrawn’
She referred an AFP interview request to her employers, who declined.
Two of the freed hostages have been hospitalised after their release, including 84-year-old Elma Avraham, who was treated in intensive care but whose condition doctors said on Tuesday had improved.
In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly voted against a resolution condemning Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist organisation.