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Bel Trew in Jerusalem and Nedal Hamdouna in Gaza speak to families searching through photographs of thousands of unidentified bodies and dozens pulled from collapsed buildings to try to find out what

But the three were delivered into Israeli hands by Red Cross mediators at 5.40pm local ... their houses past damaged houses in Jabalia and Beit Lahia regions, after the announcement of ceasefire ...

After their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military said the ... Rafiqa Subh, waiting to return to Beit Lahia, said: "We want to go back, even though our houses ...

After their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military said the ... Rafiqa Subh, waiting to return to Beit Lahia, said: “We want to go back, even though our houses ...

After their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military said the ... Rafiqa Subh, waiting to return to Beit Lahia, said: “We want to go back, even though our houses ...

After their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military said the women were brought ... Rafiqa Subh, waiting to return to Beit Lahia, said: "We want to go back, even though our houses are destroyed. We miss our homes so much."

After their handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military said the women were brought ... Rafiqa Subh, waiting to return to Beit Lahia, said: "We want to go back, even though our houses are destroyed. We miss our homes so much."

Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud has been handed over to the Red Cross, Israel's channel 12 said, as footage showed her surrounded by a surging crowd and armed Palestinian militants in a chaotic scene in southern Gaza on Thursday.

Leena Ibrahim Almadhoun returned home to find it had utterly changed. Born in Beit Lahia, 21-year-old Leena Ibrahim Almadhoun says she spent all her life in northern Gaza. When she wasn't studying ...

The Red Cross said on Saturday it had completed the second phase of release operations as part of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, transferring four Israeli hostages from the enclave and facilitating the release of detainees from Israeli centres.

Chaotic scenes unfolded as an Israeli hostage was led through a crowd in Gaza before being handed over to the Red Cross on Thursday.